Midnight Lullabies

15 | Ashes

breaking down
like the pillars that support my very house
they crumble to the ground
and leave behind clouds of smoke
for me to suffocate in.

breaking down
like the car crash I witnessed this morning
and it bleeds of irony
for you are but a fool for leaving me; a hit-and-run
you are a fool; for the evidence will always remain.

crashing down
like the walls that seem to close in around me;
claustrophobia is the punch line and she's laughing at me
she's breathing in all the air;
I can still hear her whispering.

I am a graveyard
initials engraved on my skin
I am a memory; treasured then forgotten
choking on the ashes that run along my mouth to my throat.

I can't seem to swallow them
I am a dry, barren desert
my heart pumps nothing but clouds of smoke
that fill my pores and they evaporate in me.

I am the daylight
the sunset
the moon
the sigh before the passing.

I am relief
coursing throughout your veins
and somehow I end up getting lost
in the labyrinth of passages that reside in your mind.