Invisible Orchestra of Despair

Electric fairy lights danced

on darkened windows.

Hovering souls folded

into quarters of bloody rags.

Stars marched single file

onto death row

with no rays of hope.

Moon beat hasty retreat

into pools of curdled mist

inside my head.

Buzzards screamed

festered messages of doom.

Empty mirrors

reflect troubled spirits

falling into abyss

of no return,

frantically holding on

to jagged knives

to cut the darkness.

Drowning in

endless desert,

self-indulgent sun

refuses to rise.

Threatening shadows

of the murky forest

extinguish fairy lights.

Melancholy stabs

winged lives

as black clouds

swoop angrily in,

playing an invisible

orchestra of despair

scolding its next prey

in barbed wire threats -

DISSONANCE SURROUNDS.