in memory of

Painting with the ashes
Speaking what is dead.
Writing out the sorrow
Instead.

Not the bloody distance
Too close to know it’s real.
Writing out the sorrow
To feel.

Drinking down the ashes.
No one says a word.
Writing out the sorrow
Unheard.

Beauty chases embers
Praying for a light.
Writing out the sorrow
Tonight.