October Tragedy

a tale for this time of year :)

Nails and boards and sweaty brows

Coal black ties and veils enshroud 

 

My life story in my death

Lessons learned not needing breath

 

In the month of full moons and phantom songs

Gourdy grins and regretful wrongs

 

I met a young woman, pale and dark

Who’s lips seemed to kiss my then beating heart

 

Twilight strands upon her head

I, not by advice but feelings led

 

Top-hats and roses and whispered tales

Somber parades and love that fails

 

An autumn by my very side

An eternity without my soul for lies 

 

Great in wealth and poor in choice

How quickly blinded by that voice

 

She left me drained of all my life

Oh, the things one does for their wife

 

Six feet below but wandering still

A single sad purpose to fulfill 

 

How does one kill one already cold?

A plague of a question for one not so bold

 

A ghost, a spirit, a fiction of the mind  

Cursed never to leave this cruel world behind.

Author's Note

let me know whatcha think :) I'd love to hear your take on it.