Ruin

Ruin
I. A Broken Shell
A City lies sadly moon-like in
the expanse of the endless night,
Forgotten by all but the stars and
the wind and the slow-churning sea.
Spires twirl to meet the stars, spiraling
half-broken under the feet of running happy children.
Empty shells.

II. The Doll's Cry
A doll lies dusty by the bones of her child
and mourns in silence while staring up at the sky
with a blank despair.She pleads escape from this torturous
ruin's fate.
A child's bones rest quietly to dust.

III.The Statue of an Angel.
There is a statue of an angel that still stands.
The tears carved on his face have found a new purpose.
He weeps for a time lost , for shards forgotten.
He longs to fly free but his wings have long been taken from him.
the whispered prayers of passers-by have long quietened to the
despair of lost souls.His mouth is perpetually open
and in his heart he sings a bitter requiem
in rebellion of Heaven.

IV. Anonymous
A skull lies in a heap of bones. It grins forever.
If a memory lay within it there would be the life of an ordinary woman
who existence was as unremarkable and ephemeral as as shapes in the sea.
She always was anonymous and unimportant , even when Death took her.

V. Sunrise
The sun rises wearily and reveals a forever winter
of ashes and dust,
cinders and decay.
The sun saves her warmth for other children.

VI. Hope ?
Peeking through the toxic sand , a tiny seed fights to live.
It remains innocent of the horror that came before it.
The dawn illuminates it tiny leaves while a storm hangs over the horizon
mercilessly.

VII. A Wish
This empty shell of a world begs to be cleansed by death.
To let the oceans spill into the star-sea as the sphere disintegrates to nothing.
An End ,
An End,
An End,
An End,
That is this ruined world's fate.