All Turns Silent in the Meadows
It was the strangest thing I saw that day.
A grassy grove and a man shouting mad
I didn't even know what to say.
His face was dragged down by his eyebags.
His feet slept on the dirt; twigs were the bed.
Reaching the sky at his wrinkled fingers end
Shouting "My heart is dry, so I ask from my head."
"What am I supposed to mend?"
"Their faces are what's left."
"The iron wind swept us all in the air, and their skin was far too fair, so thin that I heard every cleft."
"The shouting of others kept me awake, but now silence keeps me late."
"Why must I carry this weight? Why was the wind too stubborn to eat me and mark the others to their fate?"
In a blink and a bang, the man was lying on the grass.
His red eyes now ran back.
On his shirt were soggy sags and a wet mass.
My body was left thin on red, runny grass.
Crushed by the things I kept for him.
A flattened smile met my frown.
As I stared at the rusty wind that took me.
Copyright © Tony Starquavious | Year Posted 2024
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