silence (a lenten poem)


A bright cloudless day

no breeze or breath

dry, open space before me

windswept from the night before

a silence so deafening

it drowns out the screams

echoing in the empty well

that is my heart and soul

on this day

bright and cloudless

no traces of the explosion

that created among the rubble

this dry, open space before me

void of any remnant

of the life i once held

together like an adhesive

the fragments of those

closest to the empty well

that is my heart and soul

have vanished into

the bright cloudless sky

and i’m left to myself

awaiting the implosion

of all this emptiness

upon this dry, open place before me

no faces to comfort me

not even in my dreams

no arms to hold me

together like an adhesive

no thing

no one

to fill this empty well

this aching heart and soul

this lonely, windswept place

that is my dwelling

that used to be my home

but the deafening Silence

as it drowns

out the screams

and whispers

words of comfort

and enfolds me

in its loving arms

and holds me

together

for now

is all

i have

no one

but You



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