Echo

Echo

Another drop falls upon the floor
A ring that sings within
Opening through another door
A knock between and in

Within the fall the time goes slow
A pause in pain to stall
Fading is life's purest glow
Caught within the call

Another droplet falls away
Darker grows the soul
Somewhere lost between night and day
Shuddering to your whole

Cracks and cuts within your heart
The soul-shine mirror shatters
Where the lines due their depart
And sensibility scatters

A droplet into the puddle fore
Mutilations everywhere
Dripping from your hallow core
Falling from you to there

Absent comfort, absent solace
You begin to think
In a time of purest solstice
As you near the brink

Another drip dares from your heart
Shaking against the cold
Has come unbidden to restart
Pain by: all the years of old

Memory returns, pain renewed
By their absent care
Though giving others smiles trued
The drops don't fade to air

Another drip falls from your hand
Resonating in your soul
Darkness daring its demand
A slowly growing hole

Bleeding from burdens born of they
Every soul you offer joy
Even after they betray
This smallest little boy

A drip resonates from childhood
Darkness that doesn't wait
Beneath innocent's true-hood
Compassionate empathy absent fate

You hear her voice in every part
Every piece of you
Shudder, shake, for its restart
That it makes so true

A droplet splashes from your eye
Crimson cannot call
The hallow within that can't deny
You gave and give your all

Wondering if she knows the fact
A truth that you and she
More beautiful than the light in black
That shines in starscape sea

A droplet falling from your wound
Loss is growing clear
Vision vaults macabre monsoon
From all you hold so dear

The echo that you hear today
Slowly shifts to shade
Dissipating self you pay
Emptiness repaid

Another drop that shatters sight
The dark begins to close
Calling for that ever night
As your skin reverts to snows

Colder than the chill alone
In pain: the muffled maze
Never had their sins atone
Even through the raze

A drop that calls to memory
That moment that they cut
Absent to discovery
From their stupor's rut

Careless calls their empty sight
Deaf they are to be
Absent hallow and beauty's right
Silence profound as is the sea

A droplet slides from body broken
Lines that wounds will draw
Lasting cuts that are their token
A lesson absent laws

Form and failure find their fault
Drowsy deals the dark
Sliding closer to asphalt
Diminishing your spark

Another drop you stare into
Bells begin to ring
Life is calling into undo
Love though, still you sing

No echo returning in the fade
As your life is stolen
Closing in, the black unmade
The deepest final frozen


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