HAUNTING APPARITION
Talons
Razor sharp
Strangulations grasp
Depression
Bitter blue
Piercing heartaches ambush
Exacerbations throe
How long shall melancholy’s rue
Dominate me so
Optimism pales
In lugubrious dismay
My lonely room grows algid
Vanquished passions flame
Silent grief remains
Wistful thoughts of yesterday
When love consumed my soul
Her soft embrace still lingers
Haunting apparition
My empty bed
Disheveled
Moist with tears of anguish
Bewildered reasoning
False hope of compromise
I wait in trepidation
As grains of sand expire
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2006
