Submissions by _toxicity

Once as a child I looked into this woman's eyes,
and all I saw was this empty gray.
She smiled and it was almost believable,
but the gray seemed to drain the color
of her face
and suddenly her smile meant nothing anymore.

Now, looking out the window,
I see the same gray reflected off across
the winter's endless sky and
it's almost as if she's watching from every angle,
praying for me to take the single song she
left on earth and
free it from both of our souls.

I sit down for a minute.

The snow outside keeps falling,...

They told her not to cry-
as if tears were anything more than
a lifeless bit of memory-
and sent her away.
Eight years later,
the sun still rose and
her heart still beat to the same
empty song.
But when she woke, she would not
remember the love with which
her mother had sung words
that fell
in time to her breathing,
the melody her father would
whisper in a prayer long since
forgotten.
She would not see the colors of the
rising sun,
or the pain in her sister's eyes
as her boyfriend beat her
with the back of his...