Vacancy

Vacancy

Black polish chips on uneven nails

Limp blond locks submit to the wind

A silver ring winks at the veiled sun

And as a passing look pierces through her translucent skin

She takes in a deep breath of unseen certainty

Her soul suspending in a foreign galaxy

A strange serenade haunting wherever it once had been

An empty swing creaks as it rocks back and forth on ropes

Leaves fitfully swirl and rise and fall again

Her feet do not move, but she flies over a map of the world

Under sun rays of her past, over rivers of crystal memories

But this is the mind's deception on the newly soulless

Forcing it down a floating path of dreams

Distractedly she wonders where he put her heart

She is thrown back to her sidewalk, wavering, weakened

Now she is a stranger to herself, a vision to none

But she does not cry anymore, and she does not feel

Just emptiness, hollowness, a void

Love once lost is a vacancy gained