Silence sits upon my shoulders
for quite some time now.
I plunge deep into the blurry emptiness
where I see dead words
beneath the river of my life
that watered my spirit so far,
now gone dry
perhaps quelling the fire inside,
blink at me scornfully,
deepen the invisible sorrows
stuck to my bones
like the wounds of an uprooted sapling
and loneliness wraps its arms
more forcefully around my core being.
River of Emptiness
