A Broken Family In Ruins

Death and Destruction pave the way today
Through the aftermath of this war, such gore
Lives are shattered and broken, torn away
Crimson bleeds into the gutters once more.

Torn apart and left to die, gone blue sky
Dark stretches forth and hides the pain in vain
Tears fall in rivets down cheeks, don’t deny
Emotion erupts, flows leaving a stain

Years will only cover the scar, by far
Hidden below surface with artifice
When time dulls the memory and then we spar
Forgetting past duels, hurts and pain surface

Threatening our lives again through this pain
We lash out in anger and blame, we maim
Cutting deep we open old wounds and drain
What survived before now shrivels in shame.


16 lines written in 4 quatrains which a rhyming pattern of a.b.a.b.
There are 10 beats per line.
This poem looks into the aftermath of marriage and families that have dealt with emotional issues that have torn them apart. What goes back together has scars, that are peeled away in time when the next battle emerges and they suffer even more.