where

where have my words gone?

brother.

have you seen them?

did you feel them?

as they shied from the light

and withered to dust and ashes

in the barren core of my being,

did you grieve for them?

like i have

in a once upon a time

without the happily ever after.

my words are dead.

and with them

my selfhood.

grieve for them for me please.

for this dusk in life prevents

the hollow me to do so.

in this once upon a time

without a happily ever after.