Shards

Tearing apart familial seams,
lost threads in America’s tapestry.
War-strewn shrapnel;
smoldering, fragmented debris.

Caustic Dreams,
Euthanized Clarity.

Shard-splintered solace,
mutely burning North Stars.
Wayward lattice-work eyes,
threading fate amidst passion’s dying ire–
vows in America’s dirgeful verse.

River’s meandering flotsam,
drifts tumultuously onward.