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Rated: E · Poetry · Tragedy · #2205552
A short poem
Grey and Black

the embers of the blazing fire
burned like the love that I never had
the love you never gave me


smoke bonding to my cloths and hair
covering me in the scent of smoldering wood
lingering through the night

I was left in the ashes
Grey
Black
Burnt
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