An Empty House

Vestigial Remorse

25 - An Empty House

silent thoughts in an empty house
stringman has come
stringman has come to stay

It is the Stringman
It comes to the place
you’ve invited It into
touches your souls
It destroys all It touches
It claims It’s own
everything It finds

takes your hope
breaks your trust
kills the love you cannot hold
tastes your imbalence
It leaves what’s left of you

It’ll eat at your mind
gnaws aat broken dreams
It’s the one that comes
unbidden
to the dead souls
who’ve yet to die

I am the Stringman
and I have come to stay