Torn Asunder.....

Tears choked

Swallowed pain

Heart's death

Sorrow's gain

Bitter dregs sucked through pursed and dry-chapped lips

Do little to ease

A thirst so great drawing cheeks gaunt and cavernous

Nothing can appease

Breaths gasped

Mind lost

Soul's shaken

Vanity's cost

Tainted bread gnashed with chipped and broken tooth

Fills not the void

A hunger never sated, consumed even as it consumes

Only to destroy

                               

                                                                                                                                     --e.a.s. demers