The Smallest of Declarations

Progressions of maturity anxiety halts
Insecure demons brought to the outside
Indecisive perspirations of a slighted fear
Elation traced to a covered happiness

Unleashed distress from an emotional instability
Small joys no longer able to be seen
Unnoticed scars altering a formerly sane reality
Directed feelings to places not far enough from the inside

Her crumbling pieces losing hope in nightly tears
Gracious pity for an eternally broken child
Heartaches stifled with each imploring breath
Mistaken transgression for past penance

Solitude sighting a seemingly self-made end
No father to walk with a white dress at his side
Caresses by candlelight in her fading dreams
Life snuffed away by the smallest of declarations