Diamonds

Danny Dodger

In classical theatrics

Another miserable story is cast

With shadows of ballet on the walls

Flames reaching for the heavens above

The piano cords purring through the still air

A chime of laughter fluid like a silk wonderland

Then a screech of searing steam stifled the beauty

Bringing black veiled faces to a heart stopping terror

Heads twisted away and their claret tears streamed down

The vampire bride to be had collapse down the spiral staircase

With a wooden cross through her ash and bone she landed

The ashes to ashes and the dust to dust as she drifted

Through the same still air that purred differently

Her empty wedding dress sullied grayish

Black hair in a pool at the skull

Diamonds lost in the bone