100 Word Song Challenge ~ Homecoming

Her arms were a train wreck.

Bruised, scarred, scabbed and bloody

Leaching out across the linoleum

Of the road off attic flat

That had become her home.

Her eyes were no longer with me

Wide open but unseeing

Salty tracks of the tears

Even she didn’t know she was crying

Bleaching the blood

On cracked linoleum

Ambitiousness now replaced

With nothing more than the ghost

Of the girl who used to be

Caught dancing in the rain

And never cared who was watching

Eaten alive by the city she desired

In an attempted escape

From the fenced pastures

Called home.

You can't rock The Black Crows without my mind instantly wanting to talk to angels, so when Lance (who's blog can beat up YOUR blog) gave us Hotel Illness as prompt for the 100 Word Song Challenge...I had to go with a poem...because I LOVE The Black Crows...and I LOVE poems ;)  Don't forget...you can come and show off your own spin on the challenge...just don't steal my angel!