darkness

lifetimes spent scouring
emotions
questing for
pieces
missing from a life’s
puzzle
hollowed out vessels
longing
for replenishment
failure of reason
led
to ground zero
accepting
once again
limitations of
emotion
a heart with no
strings
offered to one
malicious
untrue
unfaithful
having not
imagination enough
unseeingly grasping
for emotional clues
lacking the key of
understanding
possession of ego
bragging of conquest
love nothing more
than a booby prize
in a backwoods
carnival
comfort withheld
before salty pools
of desperate lonely
tears
blame distributed
on winds of fear
scattering
bitter remnants of
failures past
decaying memories
fade into infinite
darkness