The stench of decay

Is potent 

Rich and overbearing 

Through slivers of light 

Until vast open ebony 

I can sense your 

Rot

Thick and heavy

As passing time consumes You 

My reddened eyes soon lose You

Hollowed from inwards - out

Now a shell to what once was

All that fills our space 

Is this sharp odor

Of you 

From you 

Only you 

Weaving from room to room

Silent 

Bruteing and harsh

Secreting your stench

Lingering within your cage nest

Tainting our offspring 

Leaving them to

Rot 

Questioning from outwards - in 

Fragile to all that lives

Beyond these built walls

By you

For you

Protecting you

As passing time consumes  You 

My reddened eyes soon lose You

And now I’m left with nothing 

But you