Without Water

 an abandon unfounded killed before it died … a faith unrequited still aches inside … given credit with unknown absolute line … a fate decided by space with no time

toying with lives held in her favor … cares less for the smell insists it’s the flavor … it’s now getting easier to indispose … with fingernails finished she hides her toes

massaging her feet while she drifts off to sleep … sustains a promise she knows won’t keep … without the benefit of mutual closure … tossed by the one he once saved from exposure

no more the sea he once swam in her presence … burned by the beaches he fought in her defense … saved her from drowning in her salt water past … the shelter of tears she still cast

the vulture of flies now feasts on his brain … the larvae of memory takes wing with new pain … the scavenger realization still peels … the skin off knowing what her eyes conceal

praying for skeletal life on her shore … return to a world where he’s needed no more … smile for the cameras without reason … giving thanks for vacancy of the season

the only constant is rejection without notice … employment and comfort know no need of solstice … piece by piece memory injurious insult … the flies of her meaning saliva result … hyenas take dating bites on a good day … just make matters worse with all that they say … the ants of time always have the last say … finally free of the flesh she left behind … 

the end

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