Depleted By Tomorrows

Sunbaked to crisp this rag your hand enriched, Hangs on a wire exposing tattered thread, Rung-out depleted by tomorrows switched, Lifeless without you, left, now lonesome bled. Days wiped as months turned years following fast, All while my focus rusts once where we were, A rite of damnation pirouettes past, Encircling sorrow’s waist with dizzy blur. Spun as a ragdoll shook in infancy, Watching my purpose, or the lack thereof, Unable to cry so wide-eyed to see, Shadows forgotten plunged searching your love. Were you an empress I’d be worn a crown, Longing for tears so my sadness could drown. 10/23/2016 Submitted for: Words Drowned in Tears Poetry