For The Birds

To close my eyes

Reduce you to black

Nothing more than an insignificant shadow among the vultures

I will walk away

And take with me everything you will never understand

And this belongs to me

And my time for sharing is through

Your words have cut deep for the last time

And mine will fall on deaf ears no longer

With a line drawn in the sand

These differences they divide

On the one side, all the hope in the world

The other, putrid flesh and yellowed bones

I tire of forgiveness

And I am sickened by regrets

So this is your fate

My silhouette will shrink and fade against the horizon

As the birds begin to devour your already rotten carcass

I will smile and laugh and dance and sing for the first time in years

Joyful as I hear your muted cries in the distance