charred dreams

My dreams are burning,
flames licking at my feet,
setting fire to broken bones
on a new moon night.

There is no air,
only smoke and dust,
and I am suffocating
with every breath I take.

Once I had a future waiting.
Now only the past breaks me.
I stand in the ashes of who I pretended to be;
an invisible stain on a clear sky.

I pray for the rain to wash me away,
to fade me out before you see me.
But the stars show no mercy.
I am a lighthouse no more.

Ruins ablaze, cold to the touch,
I hide my face and shatter.
Hold me one more time
before nothing of me remains.

I wake with loss clinging to my skin.
My heart racing without aim.
Nothing is everything. It is all the same.
I close my eyes and give myself to darkness again.