Drowning amidst flames.

I'm tumbling through confusion.

Defeated she falls;
down rabbit holes,
and into the heart of cloudless blue:
She is the sky.
And her tears create the rain.

Within her grasp,
she tenderly staunches
the pain of fallen souls.
Picking up the thread,
she tries to unravels the ocean.

There is a storm brewing,
and through her fury
it births a pain.
Disappointment in self
lands sour upon a salty tongue.

As her fingers dance the lightning-
clapping rhythm of thunder-
She runs from them.
But no direction
lies in her wind.

When her child is risen
from gloomy depths of dusk,
she breathes life into the embers
and blackness, becomes
Illuminated.

Her moon is silent solace,
watching over as sleep comes
and she wraps arms around herself
to give dillusion
of comfort.

Peeling off the blanket
sorrow feels to her, humid,
and creates languid days
where, even crickets
see the importance of hush.

The monotonous repetition of routine
causes catatonic autopilot.
Where not even sun,
can heat marble statue;
she is slipping away.

Defeated, she is the sky
and alone her burden weighs heavy
upon shoulders of scorched flesh.
Today the sky burst into flame as
she watched the world drown.

Reviews

[Ruth]

Oh goodness!
Your writing breathes! It literally bleeds...I am taken by this so much, awesome! xoxo

[100 Times of War]

Wow, powerful and symbolic. I love it.

[asdarkeyesclose]

'She is the sky.
And her tears create the rain.'

Well this had me hooked on every word from the end of the first stanza. I simply adore writing about the sky and here you capture every facet with fresh, inviting metaphors. Very much a poem to savour :)

[T4int3dInn0c3nc3]

Wow. That was just like amazing. I really liked the first verse or stanza, whatever. It has definatlly insppired me to write something. I havent written in a long time because I cant find something to write about. But this poem you wrote made me want to write about something ... happy? Although the poem kind of expresses the opposite. Guess thats just how things work :P. Great poem :)