Broken



The sun shone above as the darkness came 

And her warmth turned to bitter cold 

The graves loomed large where the corpses lie 

In the earth so dank and old 

She walked condemned to beat of her heart, 

To the thud of her life deep inside 

Head hung low with a tear in her eye 

As the warmth in her chest slowly died 

And there she remained in the core of the dead 

Amongst all the morbid decay 

To place a red rose with an ache in her soul 

At the thought it would just fade away 

Where beauty had flourished aging remains 

Seeped through the ground where she stood   

To sever her thoughts in a deep cutting pain 

Tracing fingers of ice through her blood 

Soldiers of marble, granite and stone, 

Stood proud from their army of weeds 

Markers of death each a story to tell 

Of the heartache and hurt they proceed 

Right there in the graveyard her life fell apart 

Left a cold hardened stone in her heart 

Lost in the shadows of old faded graves 

Where it tore all her goodness apart 

The rage of the beast as it ripped at her throat 

And clawed at her weak ruptured soul 

Severed her will as her fight ebbed away 

And the darkness of death took control 

Spirit destroyed, her strength almost crushed 

She knelt on the damp waiting ground 

As a single tear fell, her whole heart split in two 

And she sobbed without making a sound 

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