…I care not for I am drowning

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