Adrift in the Dark

Im anchored in the darkness,

where even the stars refuse to shine,

Charon’s ship has left me stranded

somewhere beyond the edge of time.

Its wake has long since disappeared,

a fading scar upon the black,

and I am left without a compass,

without a course to guide me back.

Unable to leave this hollow ocean,

unable to call across the night,

I watch the distant souls around me

drift like lanterns out of sight.

I reach for them, but find only silence

my hands swallowed by the void.

Every voice becomes an echo,

every path becomes destroyed.

So I remain beneath the darkness,

lost between the then and now,

desperate for a different heading,

though I cannot find the how.

Perhaps somewhere beyond this emptiness

there is still a shore for me,

but tonight, I am only drifting,

anchored where no one can see.