GurL_Interrupted and DC_Girl . Thank you for your comments. I'll post my poem shortly. Hats off to Gurl_interrupted for such beautiful words. Simple words and it's non-meandering flow adds lustre to your poems. Keep it up. I wish I could do that.. She had loved him so passionately - more than Nero's decadence for the rose petals he once used for the dead what a vivid depiction......your words simply brings out the subtle picture.... To him, her heavy heart was just a plain empty blackboard with no colorful crayons to paint his life. Myself being a fan of metaphors, I liked it's use here. As for your next poem "Her Eyes" which is more like a stand-still unlike your other poems which are flowing. It's very hard to end these type of poems.I liked the way you did. Keep on posting ...... ------------------------------------------------ Ya , the question mark bothers me. I didn't put it intentionally....so i'm rewriting it without any glitches... KAFKAESQUE FANTASIES Dreams......Grotesque...... feelings......wary binded by webs......webs of despondency Touch...subtle...... eyes......red blinded by memories......memories of misery Hopes.......drifting reconciliation.......impossible surrounded by darkness......darkness so melancholy Prayers......unheeded god......illusory guided by beliefs......beliefs so jaundiced Life......precarious death......inevitable mired by sanity......sanity so flimsy