The Final Embrace

My dreams fall to the floor

Scattering like rose petals

Disconcerted I watch the merciless tears settle

Upon the unfulfilled dreams like shimmering dewdrops

The diamond misery sparkles up at me

As though suggestion that I surrender myself completely

My eyes widen in disbelief and involuntarily I shake my

head

Fear slashes at me with vicious claws

And I shudder in spite of myself

The sullen darkness slithers closer

Striking at me with ravenous fangs

I feel hope elude me as the last if the light recedes

And I sink to the floor

Landing among the somber remains of once beautiful wishes

As I feel myself slipping away

Realize that this is my end

And remorse rains down on me

Mingling with the sorrow that fills my heart

All is lost forever as the dead blackness enshrouds me

with the final embrace