by Sharon Sphinx

Created on: October 26, 2008

BLACK ROSES

Walking down the hall of mirrors

Lost in a maze of souls

Searching for truth and beauty

but the breath of life

Is only a cryptic riddle

dwelling in the shadows

Cast by the moon.

Too heavy is greed and deceit

upon the heart of man!

Yesterday's sunrise

Turns to sunset in a flash,

Without explanation

What once was,

Has now passed.

Eyes of sorrow

Cry the tears

of hope, violently swept away.

Crushed by the weight

Of a broken heart

Feels like the end of days.

The tears of angels fall

Silver and blue

because the scales of justice have broken!

Mother earth unleashes her fury

On the cradle of humanity so untrue.

Watching the rush of water over stones

Lost within a cosmic storm

Why are the roses afraid to bloom

in this garden of thorns?

the sky turns to blood

Revealing a sea of black roses

Shrouded in sorrow and darkness

Time has frozen!

Entombed in chambers of abysmal dark

waking to unearthly whispers and screams

Echoing down the halls of perdition

Where the presence of light is unknown

And love has never been at all.

It is here that fallen angels walk

On the shores of the sea

the sea of black roses.

Too soon, illusions of forever are over

beyond reason, another heart is broken.

And the tears of a broken heart

reach across centuries

Even beyond the grave

Creating the absolute mystery,

The completeness that we crave.

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