• Burning embers
    shine like eyes in the dark,
    and that’s all she sees--
    a twisted parody
    of the guardian angels
    in her mother’s stories.

    Melting dreams--
    all she has left in a world gone
    to chaos, so she prays to the stars,
    the moon, the something more
    that she wants to exist,
    but her god is lost in madness.