the smiles and the laughter run together
ruby and carnation streams
braiding, creating from our lungs ropes of joy
and yet
lurking in the corner, just for me
the shadow of christmas past
wearing his ebony suit
trailing soot over my floor and across my walls and into my mind
until all thats left is black
YOU ARE READING
day by day
RandomWe're all just cogs in a machine, cells in an organism. This is just my part of the story.