Remembrance

Bruises blossom across milk-white skin

Dark indigo flowers, blooming

Purple petals opening, unfurling

Spotted orchids scattered across a landscape of snow 

Splotches of night-dark paint

The deep shifting colors of twilight blue

When the dusk creeps in

Clouds wraiths across the face of the moon 

Dripped on by a brush of bone

A thousand shades of a single color 

Muted as eyes filled with screams 

Lavender deepening to livid plum

It's violet vivid against a wash of cream 

Tears coming, never slipping down 

Gathering into still and shadowed pools

Silent seas of forest green 

And endless pain behind rustling leaves