Poetry challenge April #1

Minute is a rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of (all together) 60 syllables, written in strict iambic meter. It's formatted into 3 stanzas of four lines: 8,4,4,4 syllables each. The rhyme scheme is aabb, ccdd, eeff

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AFTERMATH

Broken shards lay all around me,

Scattered, empty,

Dark bloody wings

Slice my heart-strings.

Words that I can never take back

Insomniac,

They slice our skin;

Bright violin.

Instrument that plays my death song,

Right, I was wrong.

Argument lost,

You knew the cost...

Still, you stayed beside me always,

Running this maze;

Held my broken

Soul within yours.

Now, I'm surrounded by our hate.

It's far too late

For sorry sighs;

Eyes bleed, heart cries.

This darkroom that once held our light

Transformed to fright.

Burned our pictures,

Dead, cold victors.