Kaleidoscope Tears

You leave and take with you the last flicker of hope Your love lingers in a shadow stretching in the fleeting light it's fluid shape melting in my mind. Memories dissolving to a melody of solitude The music of a Mephisto Waltz Words now fractured rhetoric exposed truth Shattered reflections of uncontested evidence scattered among shards of kaleidoscope tears Missing the color of my scream