Pictures of shadows
Turn their faces from me
Words run away in fear
Streets are crowded with
Screaming squealing sentences
Squalls of colored vowels scurry
Furtive and fearful consonants
Collide in panic to escape
The blinding ignorance of 'normality'
Hunts down the paragraphs
Books, notes, letters are piled high
A bonfire is lit the flesh of words
Of thoughts of alternatives melt
The flames are stoked ashes fly
Spiraling into the air
A smell of bitter blackness
Pervasive and prolonged
A bleak confession to tragedy