Nicholas Browning

Soft Be The Echo

 

A tinted green not many may glimpse,

Envy; The edge of its blade.

Seeping rasps then wrest the clarity -

From reason, and all its aid.

 

Muffled cracks will shape the cinders;

The space, in which they burn.

Perception hushed by incessant noise -

Leaving the ones that matter, to go unheard.

 

A longing one-sided

To understand and to commit -

Oneself, and all else thus

Towards earning, and deserving it.

 

When that voice no longer carries; Woeful whispers the pulsing-dire  -

The solemn breath to mourn, never reaching another.

Emerald consumes the billows of riotous waters fraught with ire -

And soft be the echo, when their fervor returns to slumber.