Submissions by larkandswan

Fire consumes them all
Licking their faces like a twisted lover
Flicking at their singed hair
At first they keep smiling
And laughing

They laugh and
Laugh and laugh
But they have no idea
How hot these flames burn
Burning
Their clothes
Skin
Hearts.

Smoke rises as the tears
Begin to tumble
From pained eyes.
The edges of mouths
Once smiling in glee
Fall now
And the flames heighten.

Screaming:
"Why?"
They demand reason
Over and over
In hell's fiery pit
One by one
They...

Hollow
A shell crumbles in the surf under my foot
I bend to look at the broken
Shards

Shards of pain they are imperceptible
The pain is dull and blunt
The pain of absence
Emptiness
Isolated to the exile of its
Dead heart

Summer sun blazing, warming dead skin
I see nothing, searching for everything
But I am left
Alone

Alone on the beach, alone in the dying June rays,
Tears drying without consolation or comfort
Swallowing the emptiness like it never existed
A cruel illusion
Borne of cruel hearts.

The river flows, its banks widen
As he watches
The life hidden in it

Some longs to escape, thrashing
the banks wider with each
beat.
Some remains, content flowing on its path
Going as the life traveling before it went
Slow then
quick, speeding and slowing,
All at the same pace.

He watches the
River he has created deepen
And swell.
His eyes droop
Drowsy, he watches the movement.
He is lulled by what
He watches.

The river is slowing finally
The last dredges of life inhabiting it panic
And fall
To...