Caught
Upon his gaunt and angled frame
hung scraps of memories lost
She felt a melancholy shame
his honour paid the cost
There were no words of honeycomb
no crystal kiss of hope
A bare-branched skeleton crept home
his dream a tattered rope
For Day 25 of 
our prompt was to pen a ballad, generally with four-line verses, alternate ABAB rhyming format and alternative syllables of 8/6…