Perseverance
Cracks splinter—
light seeps through
the soft collapse of bone
static mouth
veins hum violet.
silence thickens
tar sky
over a throat of glass.
their absence
smoke inside smoke
a room caving inward.
splinter blood
ash petals scatter.
bruises
run rivers sideways.
grief grows teeth
spits out only shards of sound.
perseverance:
pulse in the wreckage
feral ember
refusing the dark.
