broken

broken i'm broken like sea shells along a stony beach caught between the seaweed and random pieces of fossilized slate twisted in the sinews of driftwood greyed smashed into chips and fragments and tossed like confetti in the dead air that howls in despair knowing it has arrived just a little too late i'm broken like a scattering of ancient bones bleached translucent by the southern sun the flesh of every memory stripped bare from the testament of a life that had only just begun sometime in the before but now long gone in the after every hope and dream shattered one by one i'm broken a swollen carcass of emotion drifting piece by piece over a swell of regret then in and out of waves crashing and churning through the yellow froth of white too blue from worry too black from care too blind to hope even in the dawn's unrelenting light i'm broken like a cloud of sand stirred up by the west wind trapped in the fury of stagnant air and carried off down along the shore past the shipwreck of love where the lighthouse of instruction failed recklessly thrown down before the line in the sand that i may have crossed once before but which i cannot  cross anymore Copyright © Kennedy James, 2013. All rights reserved.