Unread

1.1 - I am unread        
         
1.2 - those letters of condolence lying on the bed        
         
1.3 - that ephemeral note initialed in red        
         
1.4 - that formal invitation for the newly wed.        
         
2.1 - A disturbed heart to caress        
         
2.2 - with words unfit to address        
         
2.3 - A tragic dusk beckons unless        
         
2.4 - here distress succeeds success.        
         
3.1 - Patience lost and passed around        
         
3.2 - anxious fell the tragedy crown        
         
3.3 - the coldest breeze brought it down        
         
3.4 - A stranger to all upon its ground.        
         
4.1 - A swindled tongue that once had said        
         
4.2 - all that bleeds will soon be dead        
         
4.3 - like the fading memory you choose to dread        
         
4.4 - A feigning heart yet to be read.        
         
5.1 - Those words of goodbye by despair led        
         
5.2 - with an ugly truth left to confess        
         
5.3 - that missive of hope which never turned to sound        
         
5.4 - still unread.