Endgame                                                              

 

Skeleton ruins smoldering quietly

Smokey funeral wreaths

Settling like winter snow

Across desolate streets

Awash in sacred silence

 

Calcified relics shine in noon sunburn

Effigies of humanity haunting the daylight

Ravens perch on steel husks

Petroleum fed insects lying in repose

Salamander suns on pearly marble steps

Centipede crawls cautiously over laminated tiles

 

Brown paper bag cart wheeling on asphalt

Bible lying open to the ravages of nature

Gospel scraps whirling in vortex

Golden words swirling playfully

Wisdom strewn like confetti

On oil stained sidewalks

 

Burnt umber hue eddies in autumn leaf textures

Tainted mist rises in conch shell swirls

Stained glass colors paint the evening sky

Sorrowful clouds gather on the western horizon