Darker Shade Of Pale

too many pieces to escape the darkness,
clean swept,

black ink mirror

see the light reflected in the pool, more numbers and colours than you dare to name, all the things you can’t hold in your hand, they slip right through,
they slip right through,
oil slick,

through the world,
so fast you can barely see them, and the moment that you do is the moment they are lost for ever.

black rain,
past the pale white skin of a torn fruit, grey dirt filled streaks, beautiful rain
the skin, the metal, my tears,
the rivers of grit,
this is me standing here in the rain,

water falling over my face,

the place I hide, as I look up at the heavy purple skies,
melting me whole with their shards of of glass.

can’t you feel it pressing down?

the years that have been, and the years yet to come, the sadness and the pain that lingers,

a waiting shadow, biding it’s time til the moment when it all comes crashing down,

the moments we live for,

as the rain keeps on falling.