Fading Star Silence Poet Free verse

Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress

“Wicked Web of Woes” 

Is there a reason
to rhyme when 
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced 
quill suffocates
from wildering 
riddles swerving to
the stillness 
of calcified air? 
As today, my heart 
keeps pacing,
searching for a 
symphony of serenity-
amid wayward clemency,
and when the first star 
of the evening sky,
fades and shatters 
upon a celestial canvas 
of colorless dreams.

I feel the sweeping 
wings of salvation, 
resting amidst
clipped faith, 
drifting swiftly towards 
abandoned clarity;
exiled into 
barren fields of
vast polarities, 
where hope collapses 
into an eternal demise, 
tangled within a 
wicked web 
of woeful sagas, 
trapped between 
heavy clouds
of unshed tears, 
beneath the 
crisp cusp of sanity. 

Yet I stand in 
sweltering silence, 
recollecting lost
chronicles of 
who I once was, 
whilst I’m drowning 
in waves of 
vexing numbness, 
screaming into 
the oblivious 
spheres cloaked
in smoky 
arctic haze,
questioning the 
captive chains 
of reality,
in dialects only 
the moon 
can comprehend.

Am I destined 
to be caged
in sinful darkness 
that the 
world fed me,
with sharpened 
knives at 
empty tables,
with faceless 
ghosts of yesterday? 

Perhaps there’s 
still a poem
that can unlock 
the mystery 
to a future that 
thrives with
fruitful orchards,
where rain that 
tastes succulent 
wouldn’t burn 
your flesh,
for even the 
milky-ways would
unravel a realm where 
everything should 
be as it seems.
Vanquishing the 
strings that bind—
daring me to breathe. 

Ink Empress 
Fading Star Silence

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Nik Canada7 November 10, 2023 at 10:03 PM @fadingstarsilence I love this so much amore?your deep soulful words make me feel your depth in your rare beautiful soul and gold heart,my blue rose. You take my breath away in the way with grace and profundity i can feel your sorrow and read between the lines of your unseen wounds,my korean princess. You are my healing essence,my strenght,my breath,mylight,my everything.mia bellissima moglie ti amo infinito per sempre amore mio.i love you deeply micia..mia passione.tuo..il nostro eterno amore

Nik Canada7 November 10, 2023 at 9:53 PM great collaboration

Ink Empress November 10, 2023 at 9:50 PM Dear beautiful soul sis, ah its been a while since we’ve last done a collaboration and i must say i enjoyed writing this with you, you always weave emotions so well and you are brilliant with worplay. Working with you is so easy, you are one of the best ever to collab with. We should do this more often hah! Whenever we can. Thank you again for the opportunity and for making sure the poem did come out just as we discussed! Loved it! And thank you for posting it on soup too. An honor. Fave