Winds ripple through the marble skull
Crystalline structures forming in the eye sockets
A soft chime rings, droning through the air
Cutting through all who come near
As the grass climbs the crescent
The emerald blades cross the sun
Life has found the lifeless skull
The giantess of old has found new beauty
Her flowing locks shine in a glistening jade
Owls have found a home in her cranium
Her new found form has allowed her to return

The emerald queen is here. Bow thy heads to o' Mother Nature.

Trawling through a glacial mist
Grasping at the straws of space and time
Trying to comprehend what's come and gone
Trying to comprehend the storm to come

My coat drags along the white powder snow
My past footsteps obscured with each march onward
My eyes locked to nothing in the distance
My lips ****** with my teeth sunk in deep

I drop to my knees
I bury my face
I scream out my lungs
I scream out your name

I know there's more to come
I know I must pick up what I've dropped
I know you're out there
I know you're with me

But I'm waiting for your love
To animate my veins.

dusty winds of solemn
dance around the column
shatter the glass heart
a love i will impart

o, hear my songs of affection
deft remarks of reflection
o, hear my songs of rejection
shivering introspection

feel my cries, my darling
the feelings i am guarding
let them find you
let me find you

o, feel my words of dejection
all my thoughts of complexion
o, feel my words of confession
my begging for protection

let it find you

Wandering stars
Like a shattered glass bauble
Broken like a promise
Or... actually, did I break it?

Did I say I'd stop forever?

Those glass shards are still falling
There's still time to catch them
To pick them up and put them back together again
To breathe new life into an idea that was once thought to be dead

While it may never be the same as it was before
Its new form has the potential to be even better than the last

It just depends on how you actually look at it.

This is it.
My ending.
My epitaph.
I am exhausted.
I have explored every idea I wanted to explore.
I have told the stories I have wanted to tell.
My imagination has been stretched to its very limits.
It's time to call it a day.

For now.

Perhaps, someday, I may return.
To write a second chapter.
A new beginning.
Perhaps.

Until then, farewell.

But my heart is in shards.

An iron gate slams shut in the wind
A train grinds against the rails as it comes to a halt
A man can be heard talking to himself down the hallway
His voice echoing through these otherwise silent corridors
"I'm all alone again."

As I enter the room
I find myself surrounded by shadows
Men and women, all dressed in black
Some are crying, others stand idly with a grim look on their face
All facing a coffin in the middle of the room.

A few people turned towards me
But no one said a word
In the crowded court of this grief
I found myself feeling uncomfortable
To save myself further embarrassment, I made my excuses and left.