Nightmare Alley (remade)

Nightmare Alley

To break her heart,
Slice out her ears
Shred her hopes,
Having slashed apart her dreams,
You left her alone
on the cold desolate ground
Alone in Nightmare Alley
Where all that glitters is not gold
And caveats of things undead
Whisper through the sweeping sorrows
That linger in the frozen night
For there upon the tattered ground
She curled in a ball
Cocooned within a shell, unhallowed
Waiting for the worst
Waiting for the best
Waiting for him
Waiting for anything
Waiting
Just Waiting
Eventually time dwindles
All oxygen evaporates
But she is still left waiting
In a still wake of gnawing pain
Dragged away with the leaves
Into new dangers, she plunges
Where he no longer can protect her
Where she unendingly lets herself hurt
Where her every raging breath
Reverberates into all that feels
And monsters in the pulsing shadows
Rip away her protective walls
That allowed her mind
A shield from the cannibalistic being
Consuming the fiery soul within her
But, all the while
She thought it was You
Whom pulled her from
the sepulchrally black, mysterious past
You who carried her away
Who was a beacon of pure beauty and light
Shining through the grieving oppression
Concurring the blue devils
When really
You endlessly dragged and weighed her down
Rendering her insane
You who buried her

You who killed me
And ate the remains


You were Jack
and I was Sally
Our love was lost in Nightmare Alley
hate unraveled by an upturned leaf
Moon Fall, Dark Sky
As tears fell from my eyes
When never under the Midnight Sky
Would you dare say or vitriolically think,
"I love You"