my old friend...
glad that you've come to visit

please...
make yourself at home

it's been so long since we've
caught up
i thought you were gone
for good

all these days i've been busy
with this and that
and you've been away for many moons

now that you're back
maybe we should hang around
paint the town
red

i don't know
who you are
i don't know
who i am
but let's go find out
anyway

in a way...
i missed you
la dame de mort
partirons-nous cette tristesse?

cinders and ashes.
the charred remains of
a novel construction
razed
to the earth.

5 years.
the longest days.
and for a moment
it was all worth it.
and yet the infernal descent
consumed it all.
the brilliance of the flame.
blinding, blistering
smothering smoke

no one knows how long
it burned.
a week?
2 days?
yet who can forget
the scorch of the blaze.
the fury of that demonic flame.

and that
would be all there is left for me.
a fistful of memories
and
cinders and ashes.