Sea Of Flames Poem by Sven Rhoads

This pale empty sphere floats where none reside
Yet I can still see her face like long before
That tangled embrace said its last goodbyes
Traded my heart for a web of thorns
Sorrows left on the shore of yesterday

Its time to be reborn

I held you shivering like my frozen angel
But how the cold had crept into your soul
A serpents eye replaced my one love
Tore out my emotion and just left a hole

We put forth the fangs of war
Cutting deep with serrated words
In a flash it all was gone
Our memories are but a blur

While you left and were quick to lay with needles
Penetrating your velvet like skin
I cast myself into the waters to cleanse the body
Of all the worthless things you left within
Sinking lower into the sea of flames
Burning myself back to life
I swear I will never be made a fool again
Rising to the surface with new skin
No longer the one you knew
I swear by the stars that I claim the wanderer

All pictures of her now covered in shadows ink
Any memory left is but a hideous scar
Walls now stand beneath the wintry flesh
No cupid arrows can leave a mark

A funeral for the heart that lost the will to beat
A fire to conceal the wounds that you left
To walk as a ghost among the living in the streets
The sea of flames so cold, I will not forget