Lady Wraith

Lady Wraith
By: eddy styx

Your shadow draws shorter devouring itself,

As sweet morning light wanes into noon.

The time of day when all seeming

Loses its resplendent illusions,

And the clandestine mystery of twilight

Is swept under the vast carpet of day.

Echoes of your fading smiles

Are lost in the horizon of introspection.

your lonely soul is stranded and confined

In the wasteland of the nowhere of in-between.

Your heart speaks to mine of darkest isolation

And its need of resolution's saving grace.

Consolation is a solution of ultimate absolution.

But I am withered and agonizing in the dawning

Of sorrow's revelation that I am not "the one!"

Not your special "someone" who can release you,

All the wanting in my world will not make it so.

With all my bleeding heart, I cling

To the perfection of your rhythm,

As the killing realization floods me that I must let you go.

This knowing reverberates through my being,

And your fingers slip from my grasp