Impressionable minds,
Beyond their times.

Too fast
Too soon.

Gone.

Living in my world
All alone.
I no longer answer to
My phone.

I live with my stories
My nightmares
At home.

Succumbing to my fancies
My wiles
Little stepping stones.

Abandoned by humanity
Unthroned.

An afterthought
Pile of bones.

I love in this world
All alone.

You, obviously, have something
To say.
Dancing around the words
Unnamed.

Spitting fire and brimstone
All day.
Shielded by adjectives
Unashamed.

This act you show us, this
Little play.
Just come out with it.
Be unafraid.

Twenty-four today.
You would be twenty-four.

If things were different
And life was fair.

You would be twenty four.
Twenty-four today.

Lips as red as
     A rose,
In the height of
Summer's heat.

Heart as dead as
     The leaves,
In the waning of
Autumn's fall.

Skin as cold as
      The snow,
In the quiet of
Winter's night.

Mind as fragile as
       Seedlings,
In the dawn of
Spring's rebirth.