SHADOW REALMS

tieing empty bottles and forgotten red ribbons
on trees in graveyards lost and hidden
names burnt in heavens conversation
while bells ring beneath the heavy shifting soil
ghosts flick and run between them
monoliths carved by the sky

single flowers brief in nature
slump across the chests so wide
dripping water flushed by the salty tides
memorial memory's flooded in sighs

now like time the steeples shadow time glides without decision
in a corner sits a hundred or more locks
each building but failing 
with love threading the hangman's noose
ive sat with the witches spells
with the last princess far from the home
tilted,broken,like spread teeth
some blank and some dribbling with missing words

generations upon the guarded piles
and as i raise the curtain from the stage
once more before the steeples shadow 
scented whiskey blossoms ,
and around my feet crushed crowns 
 road in signs 
and the finish - the dotted line screams cut here