• A fallen leaf
    Lay there in my path
    For some reason I stopped to stare
    At this pattern against the stone
    A flare in the darkness hence
    But I had not the time to stay and stare
    For another voice tickled and the back of my mind
    A calm sensuous voice
    Preying on my weakness
    In control of my very thoughts
    She came into my life one day
    Leaking in
    Bashing down the door
    And taking domain
    Inside my thoughts
    For weeks at a time
    She would take control
    And I would stare and watch myself
    Through anothers eyes
    As my own two hands did what I would not
    Her eyes were closed
    His were open
    Once green pasture
    Now cloudy heights
    The bleeding holes
    Where the bullets met
    The gun still smoking
    Their rings upon the others fingers
    Their kiss cut short by malevolence
    Their hands still intertwined
    The families were all subdued
    By my hands
    Yet they were not
    And as I walked away from the desecrated place
    Fire billowing out the stained glass windows
    I awoke
    To my hands covered in blood
    But the thing was
    It wasn't mine
    Her ebbing heat
    Lay next to mine
    Her throat a grinning smile
    A calm sereneness upon here face
    I wept
    And before I knew it
    Again she was in control
    I was wearing a polished suit
    All trim and neat
    A woman standing next to me
    An engaging little smile upon her face
    A bouquet in her hands
    I slipped the ring upon her finger
    And she on mine
    Our kiss burned into my mind
    And then the world devolved into madness
    The windows burst
    Glass was everywhere
    There was billowing smoke
    And dark shapes
    People screaming
    My wife to be
    Lay on the floor
    Writhing in a pool of blood
    Hands clenched into herself
    Her eyes open wide
    Her mouth open in mere shock
    And what did I?
    If you must know
    I broke their hearts
    Completely through
    With a single thrust
    Of my fist
    Flames danced before my eyes
    Was she ever angry
    After she was done
    Not one remain could be found
    Ever
    As in a daze
    I staggered over
    To what remained of my sweetheart
    My shell to its knees
    And cradled
    Sobbing
    Her
    The one I truly loved
    The one I would do best right
    No matter how I felt
    Because that is what love is
    We left that place
    I don't know how
    But my body made it
    With its soul still attached
    I opened my eyes
    Blurred by my tears were they
    The white apartment where I resided
    I was home again
    With what little remained of my sanity
    I reached for the gun
    Which I knew was at my side
    And held it to my head
    Ready to commit suicide
    The hammer cocked
    The bullets loaded
    The finger tense
    Then she took over again
    I saw the pistol fly
    Across the room
    But fate was on my side
    The gun went off
    I felt the bullet hit my side
    Shredding flesh
    Hitting organs
    Rending life from its earthly vessel
    I fell to floor
    As she screamed in my head
    Which fell to a low whisper
    As my lifeblood
    Bonded with the floor
    Falling down though the cracks
    Slipping down the rusting pipes
    past the bodies beneath the boards
    Thrusting up into the light
    The liquid seeping into their ghostly frames
    Causing something to happen
    The flesh to mend the soul re-inter
    Its bindings re-create
    And up from bellow they rise
    A second chance bestowed
    Upon ones taken too soon
    Given a gift
    From one who had no chance
    The gift of life
    What more can a man or woman give?