Mourning Skies

Beaten Path

I walk a beaten path
So many walked before
So ravaged by their footsteps

Their screams still echo
And their weapons litter the ground
They say it's silent here
That the sun doesn't shine
And they were right

A desolate landscape

My calloused hands
Lift the wreckage to my temple
A shattered photograph
A smile
A strand of hair
Are all that remain
Or all my brain
Can process

I continue my walk
The crunch of paper beneath my feet
Turns to ash
Burned
In hopes to rid of the memories

But I still see the face
Plastered on every brick wall
Screaming to the sky
That I was once alive
Sun kissed skin
And roses cheeks
Turned to porcelain and
Hollow eyes

All due
To the lies
And abandoned by those
Whose voices were never heard
Or simply drowned out

She didn't want to hear it

She lit the fire that swallowed the sun
That placed an inferno
Into all around her
Swallowed herself up
Capsized
And dropped to the bottom
Where she drug us with her

Just to walk this beaten path
To find our way out