Empty

Lost inside an endless sea
Thoughts and time small comfort to me
Limitless, limitless space
Full of heavy, weighty, aching emptiness

Poured out like a full cup
Emptying, emptying from its chattering waters
Into silence.
Drip drip drip of echoing quiet
Yawning as wide as a dark chasm
Glacial rivers and black streams churning and twisting
Somewhere, somewhere in the darkness

Feeling warmth against the pale cold of numb skin
Somewhere life courses inside a deadened mind
Void of all but the lingering residue of sadness
The bitter taste of tears
The heady wine of loss
Drink me down, drink me down in your arms

Down into the graceful sway
The liquid flow and dance of thick music
Move like a purple sea
Turgid and slow
Rippled reflection wave like a dying swan in my tears
They fall like crystal glass
Hot and sweet
So bitter-sweet