…for so it is written

Darkness descends
I care not for I am drowning

I can barely stay afloat
I feel I am lost to the deep
that the ocean has claimed me

I see no light
in my burial shrouds
there is only sorrow
there is only loneliness

and a longing to forever drift
in search of a moment
a second, a minute
an hour, a day

darkness descends
I care not for I am drowning

there is only loss
only my memories
of a once stolen kiss
of a wilted flower
and a broken mirror

my silence
is not forgiveness
my ravens are circling
in endless flight
the candle flickers
in the windless night

I am but
a tear-stained soul
cursed
to forever wander
with no company
but my ghosts
until the curtain closes
…for so it is written

as darkness descends
I care not for I am drowning

© Ann Bagnall