Shattered Innocence

Between worlds I am

Hovering on the brink of present past

As soft light falls

Intimations of yesterday.

Seep through the cracks in my consciousness

Bleeding memories

Laying claim to twilight

Hope that was awakening

In such a tener heart

On the brink of openimg to.life’s delight

Meets a brick wall

Or an immovable post

As rib tears into lung

Present time is ruptured

And the former vista becomes

Wilderness of blood

Sirens blare

As torn flesh severs with the shattering of bone.

And the void opens up to swallow me

Obliterang consciousness

I am captured in the Land of Shades

Darkest night eclipses day

As immobilty freezes forward movement

Irrevocably

This is a tear

That never fully mends

Frayed edges forever touching uncertainty

And fear that just ricochets

Through every cell

When reminders come

Of that haunting sprimg

When I encountered the cataclysm

Of shattered innocence