Fairy Tale of Love

We once were more

than just once upon a time.

I clung to your subliminal words

desperately with both hands,

remembering black lashed eyes

manipulating me like putty,

as I wandered desolately

in empty stretches of unpaved road,

my heart helpless in your cage,

frantically peering through

your blue tinged soul windows.

The darkness of you grew cold,

while midnight halted at the gate.

I spoke to you with desperate teeth

clinging onto your threads of dust,

prone bodies on moon’s floor.

I paraphrased your face in

heavy anchors of pain, watching

as pathos grew within my heart,

while smoky nights and loneliness

lingered in fabricated promises,

spitting in longing’s face,

kicked cavalierly to the curb,

my twirling globe of love,

hanging on a clothesline of empty.