City of Sin and Lost Hope

Haunted silhouettes loom throughout the streets,
Trailing behind what seems like elapsed memories.
(Ghostly structures consume her vulgar cries)
In desperate attempts to embrace forgotten dreams.

She spends her nights reliving fractured instances,
(Recollections that stalk away at bloody avenues)

Shattered lyrics swim within her careless mind,
As discarded sins surround her frantic whines.
Lasting promises snatch at the fading images,
(A crimson hand reaches for watered lies)

Tarnished petals disperse throughout the virgin sea,
Defiling the innocent cries of a former love.
Her muffled screams choke the frail stems of flora,
Drowning in the salty tears of a forsaken soul.

And with the wanton smile that she has stitched upon her face,
She welcomes the fiend that's come to wrap her soul in tainted lace.
©20080503 Mindy Huang

*Edited. Added in the fourth stanza.
**Weak ending, I know! I just found this while rummaging through old documents, and I just decided to post it here. (It was supposed to be for an old contest, but I never got around to finishing it...)