Silent Supplication (poem)

Flitting lightly through space like a butterfly

Sipping nectar from newly awoken flower

Innocence dying with birth of a stillborn cry

What new trespass shall bequeath next glower?

Peeling walls yellowed from nicotine and dismay

On encrusted table sloshed bottle a sigil of nightly rituals

Ashen cancerous comfort layers a patina of smoky decay

Antenna quivering, a roach seeks discarded victuals

Stacks of unpaid bills totter like skyscraper on sandbar

Misery totted in columns, ink and desiccated tree

Mute testament once bright dreams envisioned from afar

Arthritically swollen as the joints in a too often bent knee

Whimpering in fear at the creak of a loose stair

Haunted eyes dart toward sound as rabbit seeking fox

Prey feverishly, hoping predator seeks not her lair

Still, silent, listen; creep toward imagined safety’s box

Years ago, love bright with possibility unbounded

Two were joined forever as no man could put asunder

Dashed hopes and dreams show promises unfounded

Harsh words and fists override wind-lashed thunder

Hands that once held her in love’s embrace tight

Ball up in frustration, strike at nearest target

Serenades of romantic music once felt so right

Now alcohol infused furor new horrors beget

Unable to leave, terrified to remain

Affection withered with each slamming door

Where can she go? How to stay sane?

Fly off with Poe’s Raven? Love, like life, Never More