Sky Black- A Poem by Guest Author, James DeAcutis

Sky Black

James DeAcutis

Sky black

A wandering moon

Shadows creep across the room

The pale gray light infects the bone

Short breaths released will not come home

Heart black

And dripping red

Fallow dreams cannot be fed

Its hunger creeps from down below

Deep within the dark shadows

Blood dried

Cold and dead

And dead flesh cannot be bled

But crushed within an iron grind

Leaves dripping pulp and dreams behind

Ice cold

It touched a spine

With dreams of death cruel and sublime

And despite the chill that burns the soul

The long lost spirit ignites cold hearth coals

Shadow skulks

Across my room

Trailing dust amidst the gloom

Bearing down plays hide and seek

And toys and tickles my heart so weak

Heat fills my blistering eyes

My body withers and flakes

Phantoms stifle my pitiful cries

I fear I will never awake

Through the night haunted tunnels of slumber

Down the cracked black cavernous hall

I walk amongst scheming demons

Whose screams I can’t hear at all

Sky black

The mocking moon

Glides across my poisoned room

And although I know

I am close to death

I dread what I'll see when I lose my last breath

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