Ebony Curtain

I washed my face

With warm, salty tears

Early in the morning

My head throbbing

My body quelling

Into silent, heaving confusion

All the while forgetting

My heart softly drumming

Because I was

Losing myself to you

In nocturnal shadows

Of an ebony curtain

That obscurely falls

On the dawn

Of a new day.

© Salem Islas-Madlo 2013Image

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