Black Sky

How somber the sky without stars once filled with the reverie of tomorrow removed by the drift of pain...that lingers before falling down the face of sorrow never to return...trails, left fading dispersed by shadowed times when paradise turned a world to gray and death's hands clutched the throat of life entering unannounced offering a game of melancholy to the grieving clinging to hope, unsustained, only borrowed when moments spun and spun in a dizzying form, melting, falling, tumbling into a slow ebb of vanishing breath washed away by welling orbs...drowning from death's painful point of pain when I knew my love was dying and my heart lay on the banks of hell as anguish claimed its victim dragging me into the dim-lit realm of suffering when her eyes closed and tears poured and poured from the weight of a lonely world circling the feet of my despair where I saw a reflection of a black sky where stars once shined 3/3/18 contest Free verse on sadness