Tatters Of Us

By Sheen Khurdi

Did you hear it?

That cursed night

I did.

Did you see it?

So subtle on our walls

I did.

Did you feel it?

That sudden quake

I did.

Soon our screams

Watered the weeds,

Sucking at the teat

Of the very existence of us

It twirled around

Our warped souls.

Dancing tendrils

Poisoning us whole

But we were strong

Begging to hold on

To the light and like

Of us, you and me.

Its roots grew resilient,

Its branches threatening to throttle

Draining away the very life

That had revived us.

It was loud, so deafening

The ripples shattered our hearts

The wind knocked right out of us

Souls embedded with shards

Just like that

There we lay

Fallen to dust

Ashes, oh! Ashes of such a beautiful love

Just like that

There we lay

Poisoned to death

In tatters, such tatters

Forgetting what we had been

By Sheen Khurdi