Lost

No hope,
no escape,
no joy,
no love,
no tears,
no smile,
no pretending,
no amending,
no fixing,
no playing,
nothing to do so with.
The little we had,
we have lost,
the parts we dared play,
we have lost,
the promises we once made,
we have now broken,
the things we saw as good,
we are now blind to,
that darkness we once ignored,
is now so very apparent,
so potent,
so unignorable.
Though we have considered,
fought,
slinging bows,
screaming curses,
such ugly words to us all,
flung at each other,
those words,
now replace the love,
that was once felt,
once exchanged between us,
the love that is now replaced by,
the words,
and the hollowness of no love,
and no hate.