Dinnertime Stories - Revised

Cast of shadows, courtesy of candle, Light fading unfolds the same tale at dusk. Soliloquized retellings of scandal, Lengthy but worthy, as faults to unhusk. Memories gone cold, my table setting, Echoing attenuated laughter. Plates piled high with the feasts of forgetting, Still doleful hungers linger thereafter. The flickering cloister of flames confer, Enkindling solace in the solitude. Tacit acceptance, no protest to stir, Away from the noise, alone without brood. Resigned, I dine on the remnants of day, Umbral asylum, narrative decay.