/poem/ rogue within

I wrote this for a friend of mine years ago, inspired by an artwork she did that depicted her trauma and inner conflict. Memories of sitting on the floor with my laptop on the bed while writing this is bitter and sweet, since I was going through so much at the time and the friendship was a saving grace. After all these years it's still one of my favourite pieces I've written, unlike the rest where I slightly cringe at. We may not talk to each other anymore but the feelings were real, and have been immortalized in writing. Azura, I hope you're doing well wherever you are.

There's another story attached to this poem too, I started correspondence with a guy on Slowly and he expressed interest in my poetry, so I sent him this poem with my letter and he never replied back, so yeah.

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raining down on the vast azure

divinity weeps with sympathy to ensure

chaste drops sting dotting my cheeks

blooming into briar with thistle in meek

lucid droplets become cardinal in hue

scarlet streams flow out my eyes on cue

amber beads stained with chagrin

i can only receive with inner sin

sense of security long gone with adieu

my umbra still haunted by the affreux

turbulence within soothes the brute

silence turning me into a mute

maimed by misdeed and amiss

flames engulf my somber abyss

the atmosphere deepens with gloom

my inferno has its full bloom