One Last Mile – January 2025

Candlelight sparks
Silent walls within my heart
Sweeping silos of black ember
Drinking tea with the executioner

Charity maiden
Constant sorrow
Stored in blood
Wrinkles in time

Dust to pain
Jive and quest
Boy and elder
Built and boiled

Broken hammers
Sight no more
Siphoned moonlight in her eyes
Returns me to September

East meets west
Reserve the first grave
Magnetic and jaded
Black foam drizzles

One last mile
No more bullets
Sing into her cell
Sun-burnt memories