Her Resolve

Ripples of pain weave circles round her Memories sad and stark crucify her At night she encounters mindless phantoms Vampires who come to suck her blood And tear her flesh She seeks a shelter where she could fall asleep Breathing dark secrets into her crumpled pillow When questions rise from all corners Putting her into a dreadful quandary She longs to hide In the remote corners of her self And wash clean in her own tears In a quickly darkening world She looks for a candle flame To make her ashen heart once more aflame When torn with the whiplash of life She longs for a balm to kiss away The sting of her reeking wounds From the throes of guilt and sin She resolves to walk into the calm Into the serenity of a day's end Never to be thrown and trampled Under the hooves of raging beasts Not to be a toy fit for heartless rogues