Skyline Silhouettes

I sit half crouched in a rickety chair My gaze riveted on the porthole A fuzzy mirror to the outer landscape Begins slowly to unscroll A lanky ray peeps within And falls on my droopy eye I strain to catch the morn's glow As day prepares to drag by A silhouette grim and dark The limping guard, I fathom Sound of jarring footsteps Echoe with staccato rhythm Twisting forms trespass through With rumbles of storm unseen My mind churns in unison Torn into tiny smithereens Like an urchin's grubby face Descending splashes of rain dripping down as oblong tears Are traced on the grimy pane Trickling water seeps through cracks Forms murky puddles below A rat scurries to lap it up Before nibbling my dead toe Sieged by death like silence All forces now seem spent My reinless musings merge with Macabre shadows on the vent. Contest Jamie's interesting contest1 Theme: Reflections on the window Rhyme scheme abcb Date Feb 17 2017