Withered Bouquet

"I lie basking in deep shadow

wrenching in exquisite sorrow,

sweet misery has become my companion

the shadow at my back lurking.

Beckoning me to fall

ever deep into the void of despair.

For I have done the unthinkable,

the most grotesque of things...

I've cause another unequivocal

agony pain and lose.

Betrayal became to me as

a partner in the perfect crime

a heist for the ages,

though I was an unwilling accomplice.

Through trickery and deceit

my heart did lead me unto

the path of treachery,

to promises made and

in but one moment broken.

A lifetime of building,

broken into nothing

but shambles, echos, of what once was.

For I've given away the unthinkable,

my heart .... Like stabs of a sword,

I did pierce the feeble

tender heart of the only true,

sweet lover that

I could freely once call mine.

She was bathed in holy waters true,

now her heart baths

her in reedy pools of deep crimson.

Her light shining brightly

as the eyes of a fawn at dawn,

now lies listless as

an empty sky at night.

A bottomless pit of despair

reaches over me pulling me in,

to come join the darkness

that grew from within.

This darkness is sin,

it seeks a new companion

to join with it deep within.

Murky shadows twist and contort

to form chains to pull me under,

sin rejoices in its great conquest

and in the gains that it acquires.

The guilt of my sin is like

the stabs of the many blades

of knights noble

and true pressing in and piercing me thru."