A Case of the Dim

All those outside see light
come from those graying blue eyes,
though she does not feel
the harbored light inside.
It all must be escaping;
stolen by the tainted hearts

yet hers too is–alone.

She imagines herself
the rainbow fish, giving
all her scales of light away;
Leaving herself a dreary,
dull, uncolorful…

Through days
a stapled smile
veils those troubled eyes.
At night
a frown upon her face.
Dim room– alone,
no light left
to see by.

They said they loved
they’d never leave
yet left alone
my heart it bleeds.
A ghost inside
waiting for release–
another wasting body
to rest beside me.

Some days she wakes with no light
protruding from dismal eyes;
her veil uncovered, they just pass by.
Unnoticed, unseen, assuming her
sad sad sad, mad mad mad,
losing her mind–

she cries.

Tears extinguishing any rays left
within that burning mind.