Death songs

Death songs trickle down my face
like scarlet across feathers white
what scream was that which breached?
the dreams of my flight?

smiles, now broken
slit the throat
beliefs, from dark corners shiver,
the shattered glass
onlooks a million times-
dancing anklets silent forever

in a house ransacked and ruined
I cry inconsolable

they looted something precious.
not breathing, not being
something else made me living
…..I lost something precious

death lived I
but a hint still stays
lingering like a scent
of stale roses in a temple