Love Poem: A Wilderness of Mirrors
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Written by: Ink Empress

A Wilderness of Mirrors

The sun homes scars and flames of dusk, 
           drizzling a rain of illusion, 
and you, the muse of angst~ 
tracing the cold rush of desires,
            to sear my tongue,
            to undress the silk of life,
spilling sweet poison upon the lens of lies,
in the afterglow of faded flora~
I taste copper and ashes
of a wistful love, blurred with tears,
amidst this heart, a wilderness of mirrors,
mimicking skies, restless and clouded~ 
with pale promises and silent sighs, 
illustrating ghosts of reveries, 
as fingers of the moon, greying yet tender,
like dying winds carrying crisp memories,
          press on the keys of a hazy harmony.

But will a broken soul wade through glass-soiled sands?
I feel nothing but the wilt of wild roses,
   the flow of rhymes, aching within my ink...