Gino

Quiet Arrhythmia

There is an overbearing silence -

I cannot hear it,

But it waits, patient, beneath me.

 

A deafening void

despairing above me,

stuttering

beneath my ribs.

 

And all I can feel

are flutters

hanging over me.

 

Quiet arrhythmia

 

A deepening worry,

lingers in the hush,

as a soft thump

pierces through thought.

 

O quiet arrhythmia....

 

Dreams unravel,

fading like echoes,

as a dissonant song

drowns me,

into the wake of everything.

 

O quiet arrhythmia.