Reposting an old poem...

[ayoub]

I wrote this back in 2003, and every time I read it, it surprises me that I wrote it.

If anyone asked me for my best work, this would be it...

If I was forced to give it a title, it would be "World's twilight journey"...

In blood hued sky float pieces of night
Reflecting nothing to the land below
Each shadow is respite from an angry sun
And it's scorching crimson shards

Soundless wind gathers dust to its breast
Refusing to leave the ashen land behind
Travelling, searching for life somewhere
Revealing only the depth of the scars

Barren land moves away from the heat
Only to be frozen by a moonless night
Stars above are dimly mirrored below
By the glittering black of ice sheened ash

But memories linger in each ashen flake
Of a time before this empty existence
A time where blood flowed freely within
Rather than darkly staining the sky