For Who We Were

She texts me again

Half drunk and missing yesterday

Another sad song the radio replayed

I am watching the light bleed…

Daylight into the arms of night

I am staring into a super nova,

Of lost emotion locked behind a smile

The devil grins and pours me another

As the clock ticks my sanity away

My sins are many father,

While he places his hands on my shoulder to comfort me

Tears for penance

As the voodoo queen dances with the spirits,

Of all the men who claimed her charms

Romeo is a fable I mutter to the ghost haunting me

Turning to the empty spot,

Where your arms once held me securely

We are trinkets that are bartered and sold

Black market arms race

As we dine on scraps

And feast on nightmares

While time slides into eternity

And we are forever remembered

For who we were and not who we are