Darkly shadowed
Starkly drawn
Partly hallowed
Harken, dawn is
storming winter’s
Broken thorn of
Mourning
Shorn of
Sleeping
Keeping
Secrets
Shadowed
Torn
Torn and tattered
Worn and battered
Broken shattered
Dreams of thee
Once defending
Those whose bending
Knees were wending
Paths to thee
Once so certain
This bright curtain
Couldn’t hurt them
Once so free
Now betrayed
That freedom slayed
The price of braver-y
Shall be
Torn and tattered
Worn and battered
Broken shattered
Dreams of thee.
Shout in an empty
Room and a tree
Falls in a forest
No one to see it.
Nobody hears
Papermill dreams
Silently screamed
So fearfully laid
On the page.
Nobody’s looking. Nobody’s there.
Nobody’s watching. Nobody cares.
Nobody’s commenting. Nobody shares.
Facebook forgotten, tweet empty despair.