Challenge
Write something dark.
Whatever situation you choose, write to make people understand your pain.
Without Him
She seized with unclean hands
the cusp of a new day dawning,
crumpled it into a little wad
throwing it into clouded sky.
She chose instead to relive
the glory days of their love,
two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
a perfect harmony until
they no longer balanced.
He had blackened and charred
while she was still unscathed
in her own demented mind
as she threw gasoline
around his sleeping hulk
and lit a match which flamed
with such exquisite beauty.
The scorched flames arose, as
she clasped vignettes of the past
to her besmirched breast.
Yesterday was smoldering
in the embers while she
had tossed today away forever,
in rumpled shreds of darkness.
Tomorrow would arise
like a burning phoenix
as would her new beginning
out of the strewn ashes
vacant without him.