From the wreckage

And the great unknown

Come I,

Cast back unto it

Again

 

From beneath, the mire of

All good works

Which once wrought heaven,

You, closer to thyself

And…thy sight.

 

The poet

Now lost

Without words

Cast in shadows

From the edge of stars

“Silence.”

 

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~ R.M. Engelhardt, 2009