Dry Ice Surface

In the abyssal depths, hope is bled dry to die
A requiem for all blurs my vision, blurry and blind
The stars distant fading whisper, loses glimmer
As creation's song is reduced to a mournful shiver

This earthly sarcophagus, breast patter, rictus rots
In darkness 'neath sorrow's ilk crushing thoughts
The wind, wails, a head on a chain swinging low
Of all that's lost, ticking and rocking, sea of woe

In this infernal realm, my sanctuary of agony
I weep for my dove that's sent sepulchral gray
Thy beauty, gone, moon pallid, darkest night
A dirge, I beg thee, to end each sorrowful sight

The gods forgotten their memories, my shame
As mortal pulsate, with pain, are forever claimed
Their whispers, faint, gurgling, dying last breath
As all that's bright, in benthic, meets its death

In this kingdom a fleeting queen, pearl’s misery
Placid her flesh of distain, erratic moving mockery
My throne, a monument to all that's been tossed
A pillar to what was, what will forever be the cost

The tenebrous closes in, a suffocating shroud
Nebulous trumpets, herald in the jesting clown
I shriek, alone, weak, in my darkest final hour
Kill everything, make the sky sanguine shower

They took all I was and left a bleeding stone
Pulverized, by the weight, stripped home to bone
My cavity’s cage, flickering, snuffed candle flame
Extinguished, lachrymose my vein’s bloodstain

Mellifluously serenade, abrupt my existence
I am without a care in the world, make it instant
Batter my brains in, leave a husk for the crows
A spire of sinew, a skull cracked from the blow

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Date: 7/24/2024 4:02:00 PM
I actually found myself asking, "Who is this?!" Your work is amazing, out of my league... so much agony and it seems life has been unkind to you,,,but you produce great art, your gift.
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Date: 7/25/2024 3:36:00 AM
Just an elegy, life hasn’t been overly nice to me but I manage. Thank you for your kind comment
Date: 7/23/2024 4:51:00 AM
This would have been perfect for the nadir contest. So grim and hopeless
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Date: 7/23/2024 9:49:00 AM
It is me working on forms and it was easier to do an elegy, I have too many freeverse
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