Poetry Contest Entry

A Greener Side To Darkness

~By Robert Griffith

An opaque glass upon his heart was a mask,
Seen as a fertile ground through curious eyes,
Once could have been milder and greener to see,
Charred now in ruins of flame and eternal agony.
Through broken fence she began her difficult task,
Gazing through to see the pale red skies,
A plain ground ahead despite meeker beginnings,
Destruction of heart through his love’s endings.
Passing chambers of arid silence, she opens her flask,
To replenish the worn, torn life before it dies,
An oasis from desert, a hope well sprung,
Her palm she rested upon his tired heart and sung.
Survival in patience brought one question to ask,
“Why…” he pleads in a low rasp as she sighed,
“…Did you save me,” his voice her mind surrounding,
Beats of a new heart forgiven are pounding.
Soothingly, “Can you see beyond this bright stretch of land,
Of many things growing in what once was sand;”
An outcropping of inner strength brought from defeat,
Gave him a new meaning and steel drum to beat.
With a smile he removed his lonely mask,
Allowing her to see his bright green eyes,
Her heart intertwines with his in order to see,
A life renewed from once unending agony.

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