Vision

Pale, beaten, heavy lids slowly close
Wasting in the flames
Elapsing into haunting grey
Forever sleep

Thornless blossoming roses
Hateless, fleshless, bloodless
Essence groggily waking
Waking from deep

Distant light summons
Where it leads we rise
Sparkling crests of waters
Crystals as our eyes

Hosts of ashes
Fall making spiraling dances
Never to rise again; never to lit
At dusk; eternally bereaved of chances

Eyes crinkling we smile
Secrets known the final mile
Of who we were
Those who couldn't, wouldn't, fake smiles