The dusk sank pursuing the sun..
No war call filled, no weapon struck ..
but in silence night took back her kingdom
like an epidemic of contagious dark..
The stagnancy of the invasion infected me
My agony wasn’t of screams, but of something
more painful…
It ailed much deeper; the ache,
not of my body, but of my soul…
My agony,
was emptiness..
Entangled into ropes of tranquility
too numb was I, to untie the knots..
Time, like a weight, clang to my feet,
pulling me deeper into the quicksand..
Each struggle to escape that I made,
hauled me deeper..
And I craved to surface from these empty depths..
A nocturnal parasite unknown but not unfelt,
when it spawned in my mind this enigma,
in pursuit, of itself..
In pursuit,
of emptiness..
I was lost at the mercy of a solitary island..
Wandering, taking a path with no direction..
I was tired but not the ceaseless path..
But with the drive of my hope to find the shore,
I was determined to find its end..
and I advanced further in this infinity
closer and closer to the edge..
Finally at the horizon I saw the shore..
With an unheard rejoice my dry eyes shone..
I struggled and hobbled and reached the shore..
But in moments my gleeful heart broke
for the sight wasn’t of a blue sea,
with waves answering my escape from this..
I had no other way, but to drown deeper,
deeper into the disturbing depths,
of the boundless sea that I had before
a sea that was filled…. with emptiness…