Songs of Shattered Love

Dried roses and

Open flame

Flick the lighter

Wish on candles and

Light them up

Watch

Wax dripping and

Gathering in puddles

Stamp your seal in

The burnt out stubs

Still warm in death

The radio hums

Some song of heartache

Grip the thorny stems now

No longer do they smell

Delicate and sweet and

Faintly of soil

They smell of dust and

Subtle rot 

Taken in by time

Fragile as before only

In a heavier fashion

Felt in the heart

The radio crackles on

Yearning for a lover

Crush each bud in

Your wax-spattered palms

Rip each petal with your

Ash-tipped fingers

Somewhere a curtain

Flames to life

A candle forgotten in

The corner dooms

A whole evening 

A whole universe of

Options

You will flee and

Survive untouched

Your candles stubs and

Seals will melt away

Scattered flora charred to

Oblivion

Sweet

Sweet oblivion

The radio will fry but

In your mind 

It plays forever

Running out the door

Running down the empty 

Street as far as

You can run

As you can breathe

Some broken souls ballad in a

Room up in flames

And you will never go back

And you will never 

Know 

If there’s another life

Lived there

Roses and candles and

Songs of shattered love