Repressed indifference
tango with skeletons
Folded inside fragments
of some old handkerchief
hanging out to dry, left
behind to wave your goodbyes
Captured in your reins of
soft and broken leather
ridden till steam and sweat
crumpled, folded, and clattered
Returning, yet, as brittled lovers
forsaken to taken one last absence
a final break, down memory lane
only to return, bold and splintered
Just another skeleton at the feast
now taking aim for the cupboard
where you may rattle your fortune
wisely, a fake in a blinded mirror
Leaving me to bare my soul, undone
in a closet of deep crimson velvet
your wanting rainbow of restitute
my colors of harmony and abandon