The Shadow

“Remember friend as you walk by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now you will surely be
Prepare thyself to follow me.”

-Anonymous (Epitaph)




Butchery of a beating flesh anew
Bathing in scarlet
Beheld for years till carmine it grew
Pitch-dark now the pyre devoured
To ashes…till ashes…
And left was a shadow fagged and cold…
Revered to cut a hole
To the other side or so,
Seeking the morrow of an endless night,
Bathing in gloom
Beheld as nights to decades grew
Memories growled in the murky sky
“Seen it after the ashes and before…”
Said the shadow
And sat on the tombstone evermore…