Broken Down

Broken Down The black windows have broken down and the walls have collapsed and the broken down windows are tainted glass and the mirrors are shattered broken down, stained and covered in rust and dust In it were photographs taken by the sky’s flash With lanterns and sunflowers attached to the sun in the clouds in the four corners of the earth’s eye The only thing that is to be consumed by the wind is the silence of its breath and the pause before it punched Creeping up upon our home Where glory reigned and where we were Sheltered from the elements of earth’s unpredictable ways Life was simple Before the silver clouds and the bullet rain swept away our everything Our hearts remain intact though breaking down Dying on the inside Tummies grumbling with dearth And saliva is our desert Yet grateful we’ve not seen the end of the line Marckincia Jean Free verse 11/12/19