Caught in a somber red light

Time Immemorial


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what should have prevailed transparent
caught in the somber red light
fell victim
and was cast into the dark murky water
moistened by lament the dust settling on the surface
as to hide the images that were unfolding before her

Mystified by the balk veil that cloaked her
eyes and swallowed her discontents
Empowered her with a guise well perpetrated
by a lethal darkness
transposed into human form

A series of emotions begin to emerge
Though never fully develop until gravity became levity
until now
finding the parity hidden between the lines
rekindling what has been lurking trapped inside
simultaneously
the life ripped out of her
lights blinding the anguish
the ground beneath is no longer
ripped from under foot
the false leverage had let her down again and again
she cracked her head
and fell down the rabbit hole
the blow was struck
she took a good look in the mirror for the first time
a picture movie of still snapshots
images through a tilted lens
things go in and out of focus
just long enough but mostly hazy and blurred around the edges
crystallized in smoke ridden frames
the cracks begin to spread
so far gone
any day the will fall to dust

looking from above miniature dioramas people and places frozen in time
a yellow film of tar covers everything like a veil vignetting the pain
reminding me of the putrid colored sorrow that encapsulated everything
a hazy burnt image of a daughter
in a fallow and desolate decrepit building
a wicked child
piteous yet radiating an inculpable innocence
keeping her restrained
still hanging somewhere on the ceiling
all so small all so far away

no one left to blame
nothing more to see

except a child locked inside of her misery
bound up by fear and regret