Ashes of the Innocent

Walking down a road known to lead you nowhere,

You clutch your rotting core as it tries to pulse again,
The sickened words of angels linger on a frozen breeze.
Screaming at you and prying at the walls of your sanity.

Shattered dreams and the dust from broken hearts,

Follow your weary feet as you stumble in the dark,

Whispers follow you, tormenting your rotting soul. 

Death stays away from you, watching you walk on.

Captivated by your pain the shadows watch nearby,
Like scavengers waiting for their prey to slowly die,
They swim coldly through the burning atmosphere.
Stealing your thoughts and life as they soar past again.

Hollowed and empty, you press wearily onwards, 

On to a place you no longer know of,  a dream,

A city of broken hopeless old men who will die, 

Like cowards on their bent knees, begging to live, 

Begging to live for fear of death, yet wishing to die.

For they fear life too.

 

You feel a sharp pain in your chest
As your heart tries to beat again
Death feels your attempt to grow stronger
Tickled, he watches you walk bravely through his hell

 

His hell is a winter frozen kiss with a soft blade, 

A release from the pain, a drowning sorrow, 

The laughter of the dead melts your soul, 

Your heart convulses as Death squeezes softly

 

Watching your blood flow stronger, he embraces you
He wraps his arms around you, and strokes your skin gently
His warm body causes your body to combust into hellish flames
He places a kiss on your neck, leaving your veins to disintegrate

 

Such sweet sorrow he whispers to your piled ashes

Death and Life locked in a painful lovers embrace

Let the dance begin again, around another lost soul,

Who stumbles towards the city of the damned.

Author's Note

This poem was a collaboration between Burning Demon and I. :) I hope you all enjoy as you read, review, and rate it! :D

Reviews

[Fire&Rayne]

We rocked this poem. (It's BD btw. I got a new account) I just love to read it and marvel at how well our words entwine. It's amazing.

[SilentVerses]

Beautiful, in being able to relate to it a flurry of inspiration hits and carries me upon the spell of your haunting writing. It is with an ethereal balance of emotive power that your words are able to carry so much meaning upon their withered spines. Admiration shines through my words for the talent your writing grasps, the title does not heed the direction of the poem, adding to its unique fluidity, and with more words to carry in my heart I thank you for sharing, cutting through the curtain of obscurement to allow truth to rain forth

[Amanda Naomi]

OMG i loved it! it was so beautiful and dark! and as i was reading i was thinking of zombies and how they just meander along and how we do the same, not really living just following boaring and meaningless patterns of our life that don't make us feel alive at all. and i loved that in the poem it seemed that death could not take one who wasn't even living at all but once the heart started beating and started struggling death's grasp tightened and began to devour. and even the fact that there was such a struggle it gave som much more meaning to the few heart beets that there were!

such a great write and so well worded! thank you so much for sharing it with me!

[State of Grace]

Very well written. I like the darkness of the poem. Great job!

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wow fantastic..the dark imagery was mouth gappingly good...you worked seamlessly together..

[northern monkey]

Beautifully written, despite not really being a genre I appreciate.

[Tellie Allen]

wow i really enjoyed reading this. i love it!

[Apathy To Empathy]

Wonderful!! 10/10 I really enjoyed it!!

"Watching your blood flow stronger, he embraces you
He wraps his arms around you, and strokes your skin gently
His warm body causes your body to combust into hellish flames
He places a kiss on your neck, leaving your veins to disintegrate"

My favorite part! Just wonderful!

[trainwreck]

He kisses your neck, leaves your veins to disintergrate.
I was struck by that line in particular. Anyway, this was a great colaboration, especially since there were not obvious places where the two of you switched off. Great job.