Tired Earth

Mourn the loss

Burn the tongue

Still biting bitter pills

Chipping fangs and breaking bones

Here submerged

Left unsung

In splintered tombs

Graves of world's left unexplored

Set in icy stone

Misty eyed

Aching lungs

Attuned to treading oceans

A naked dread

Silently built

Preternaturally indwelt

But seldom understood

Light the pyre

Finished rite

Soft as fire

But burned to rock

By aged light

Bewitched and still

Bound by power

Enthralled with spells

I bury threads

At last released

In native soil

With only an unholy grace

Indifference a medicine

Apathy a tincture

Punctured wounded heart

Pursuing sutured features

Leaving futures soft

Fantasies refined

Tired of drifting off

From realities defined

I weep for tired ground

Dreaming soil

That once was not a garden

Where love has never dwelt

I turn away from sunlight

Bitten by the moon

Smitten all the same

Dancing as a fool

Laying this undying thing

To final rest at last

And leaving true love's blade

As a guard around the neck

Tired Earth

Photo by Domen Mirtič Dolenec: https://www.pexels.com/photo/back-view-of-person-standing-on-country-road-between-trees-3494648/