Soul Destruction

Some days
are soul destroying
in forms
and words that
define one's life -
when it's just
easier to succumb
to grief
frustration
anger
pain.

Some days
you just don't
care that one
day things
will
work out
because right
now in the
darkness you
cannot see
the way out
from all the
uncertainty.

And in the
darkness
and the pain
I see
the soul -
burning away
all the
roughness
until only
pure light
remains.

© Eleanor Clark
15 January 2014

Deadly Words

The music made
With words
trickled down
Her skin like
Perfumed night,
jasmine-scented
Twilight shadows
Twisting through
Her veins like
Icy nightshade.

Such were his
Words in tender
Heartbeats uttered.
Never had
'I loved you'
Killed so
Accurately -
So deadly
In a moment.

© Eleanor Clark
9 January 2014