Words of Art – Day 7 – Lonely Marionette – Footprints in the Grass

Lonely Marionette – Footprints in the Grass

Lonely Marionette hangs
Suspended above the earth
Watching frost form
On the trembling grass
And marble tombstones.
The graveyard begins to shimmer
In the moonlight
As cold takes over the night.
He hangs alone,
His breath forming clouds
In the frozen air,
Watching his future haunt the graveyard,
Leaving footprints in the grass.

Roy W. Backes
© 1992