Incarcerated

fiery lacquers

licks at my amber hair

evolves into gray skeleton weavings

glazes my elegant gown into a

ashen cloak, I now must wear

**

prisoner of my own body

stabbing pain

**

blade’s biting edge

tears into my smooth skin

like a

poisonous snake

feeding on my soft sinewy

**

icy restraints

strains

my butterfly limbs.

**

grim guard to my own prison

no longer able to arise

and gaze out to the vibrant vista

**

devil’s infernal sharp scaffold

is my only pulsating panoramic,

shrouding me in earthy hues

**

palette knife’s scars

of unhealed wounds

on display

**

alas,

no beacon

of light here

just the bloody

canvas of my despair

**

Encaustic echos,

A silent decree

**

I pray

I plead

I implore

**

this game of life

will forge ahead

but for me….

I am out of moves

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