Bloodred Walls and Scarlet Heartbeats

Scores

Shadow

Falling, failing, whistle, crunch

Splatter

"No!" The voice cries,

sunset skies illuminating the words spoken through bittersweet teeth

Glare against glasses, broken and askew on the face that was recognised to be ours

Soft grass, trickled with colour

Bang!

Car doors slam,

the bodies in blue,

hands stained with the silence where a pulse should've been

Corpse showered in scarlet, what a surreal lack of heartbeat

Yet still, the mind shivered.

"I'm lost."

We know, we responded. We know

Emotions once great

Now small

The eyes looked downwards

And somewhere above, we wondered