Monochrome Rainbow [✔️Completed]

SANDCASTLES

I walk the rotting planks 

leading to the gallows 

of the beach that once shone so bright 

now washed up and broken 

drained of life's hue 

a bleached carcass for all the lost souls 

just like me 

The image of the sea 

is a vision of my grave  

a gaping mouth full of corpses 

drowned in a bleak, infinite canvas of tears 

wallowing in gloom and filth 

swallowing up every broken piece of me 

dragging me into the icy depths of despair 

forsaking me to a bottomless chasm of darkness 

just like you did all those years ago 

I collapse on the beach 

appendages pinned down 

like Christ on the cross 

making a fallen angel in the sand 

with a halo of bones crowning my head 

a symbol of everything you stole from me 

Comatose on the weeping shore 

my motionless body imprinted in the sand 

like an infected stab wound that keeps spreading wider 

icy fingertips of water tug at my feet 

like the hands of a thousand ghosts 

dragging me out to sea 

the tides keep rising higher 

and I keep sinking lower 

I lie upon the tear-soaked shore 

where once I built you a castle of sand 

a foundation of my love for you 

held up by spires of dust 

hardened by the embrace of the sea 

before the waves tore it down before my eyes 

while you walked away without turning back 

and the gulls cried me a funeral song of crumbling trust 

All alone on this frigid shore 

above me is a world of darkness 

all around me a world of aching silence 

below me a sinking tomb of sand 

feelings washed away by the azure starkness of the sea 

draining me until I'm hollow 

wave after wave crashing over everything I once held dear 

until the memories of her heartless cruelty are all I had left 

Years wasted building castles for no one 

castle after castle 

assaulted by the rain 

battered by the waves 

devoured by the depths 

collapsing all around me 

dissolving into nothing 

a war on my heart 

a typhoon of your narcissistic puppetry 

sinking me in your pool of misery and deceit 

as if your spite was the sea itself 

All those naive smiles 

all those passionless kisses 

all those fleeting moments of devious joy 

were swept away by your frigid waves 

leaving me to drift for eternity without purpose 

You didn't drown me 

you drowned us all 

everyone you've ever touched 

with your lips of bitter poison 

sinking everything we shared 

demolishing my will to live 

because every sandcastle I built 

was a fragment of my love for you 

and you toppled over all of them