Thursday, October 14, 2021

A Romance

 


A Cemetery romance,

blooming among the wild weeds

and mossy peat of a shadowy,

decaying plot.

 

A Corpse-ship of unholy love,

under a blood red moon,

through barren tree limbs and

gnarled branches, clawing upwards.

 

Circling bats overhead,

screeching sonnets of passions

defiled by lust and greed.

Cutting against the starless sky.

 

Wind howling coldly,

swirling the last scattered Autumn leaves

in twisting whirlwinds,

scratching at the damp gravesite grasses.

 

Graveyard iron gates,

hollowly clanging on rusty hinges,

like a knocker to Hades gate,

and the Devil’s due.

 

A name carved in granite,

etched in marble,

raised in cement,

lamenting love lost through ages.

 

Rose petals withered and dry,

fallen in scented heaps

under the long-forgotten monikers

of those beneath.

 

Fragrant is the sorrow,

in which they dance,

wrapped in mist and dust,

each night embraced.

 

A cloaked figure,

silhouetted in black,

frozen in love with the

midnight scene.  

 


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