The Cloak of Despair

The heart pulsates with times I remember So pained to my soul you have become My eyes see cold ashes without ember As tomorrow fades from view, I succumb Buried lonely inside, where silent tears flow Love seems fleeting, carried by a sad wind While it glides beyond farthest reach I know And claims the untraveled distance within As nights begin to merge like flowing rain To pelt the fogged window of my glass heart I'll melt into the darkness balled in pain Then rip out the reasons where footprints start They'll be no yesterday's in a black sky Only bright stars retreating as I cry Frederic Parker 9/25/14