Memories Leave An After Image

Memories of you left an afterimage in my eyes I found blindness to be a comfort where darkness dressed in dreary black and my soul laid its head on my heart's grave to weep about wishes withdrawn from love's breath when your footprints faded away and an open door swung back and forth in the wind leaving nothing but yesterday's dim-lit realms of shade in this darkness, I heard Angels cry from our love's broken bliss of beauty where tears dropped from eyes of sadness onto empty palms, that once held love and roses could that I have cried to someone, somewhere to be so empty, so helpless as to dissolve away with every emotion that fled until my heart became an empty husk and my world an unwanted withering stem of dead petals that slowly bent and crumbled, falling to Earth to land on my knees, brokenhearted it's where you'll find me but, you won't find me, for you have gone and I have become nothing more than a weeping shadow of shades and sadness filled with memories that left an afterimage in the eyes 2/25/22 contest Some Broken Hearts Never Mend sponsor Faraz Ajmal