tall flickering light
shines bright through the night fog.
Guide us through the remnants of
once majestic vessels;
broken and
laced across the shallows,
as if a reef.
Love destroyed long ago.
Torn apart and smashed into
1000 shards of
Suspicion,
Resentment,
Lies, and
Whores.
A reef of grief.
 Each sunken barbed fragment, 
a shard of once whole Love, 
shimmers under 
sun-jewelled water. 
A guise for real treasure. 
A bewitching illusion. 
Approach at your peril.
 Haunting bells 
pierce the night silence as 
I Pray for safe steerage 
through the despair of 
shattered love.
 Once wild nights of 
dancing, passion, and want 
became 
endless days of solitude, 
contemplation, 
memories, and, 
attempts to rebuild
the shipwreck that is love. 
Love shattered into too many pieces 
to ever be made whole again.
 Flickering light 
shining bright. 
Safely guide new love
through hidden reefs. 
Light the path for 
stricken vessels 
piloting the reef,
to love again. 
 Our own flickering light;
wisdom learned
 from past mistakes,
shines bright through the night mist 
guiding us home.
 We are our 
shimmering lights 
Saving us from 
a solitary life.
© trinket 2013-2015

