19 Woolgatherings
 
  Sarcophagus  
That sound!
What is that sound?
Distant and dropping from
Some void above me
Disagreeable in its finality
My heart, empty and I
Powerless and pursued.
That sound!
Blind canopy
Bound in blackness
Darkness deep
Thick and dismal
Failed yearning
Just beyond my grasp
That sound.

I remember nothing and everything.

Aware. Cold. Vacated.
- Omitted and alone, except for
That sound.
In my distress, hopeless
In fear, and nothing else but
That sound.

In all my days I never heard such a
Sorrowful noise as that sound
Vacant and completely horrid
Muffled and dropping
Like falling rain and hail on a
Car roof
- Aloof.

I see only soot black
Between me and
That sound!
R. Milan Gura
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