Vanish

the red silk tatters whip around the skin I used to know

you stand illumined by the lightning’s fire

the silhouette does not betray which way you go

are you walking towards me or away

from the shadows I can hear the insects as I walk

mocking me from safely out of reach

the rainfall burns me as it falls from tattered sky

I call to you my voice lost in the storm

wait

jagged memories loom overhead and cut our feet

our blood mixes with the mud and shale

the sky churns angrily the storm encircles us

and watches with its one all-seeing eye

and as the world breaks up and crumbles into dust

devoured by water wind and rain

just as the planets fall you turn to me at last

I reach out to you my fingers curl through smoke