Friday 27 April 2012

Titanic’s body


My carcass lies on a barren floor,
hands which caressed my walls abandoned ship.
Rust grows on my surface,
every porthole filled with barnacles.

I held such promise, you flocked like seagulls.
Struck down in my prime, torn open, bleeding.
Ice cold fingers pried open my skin, filling me
with loss. Pulling me under.

My beds lie empty, my doors off their hinges.
Currents flow through me, but I lay unmoving,
untouched.
Recklessness saw me claimed by the abyss.
My carcass lies on a barren floor.