The Eternal Black

Originally written: November 7, 2016

Photo credit: Christopher Campbell (via Unsplash)

This is a new kind of death,

an eternal black, of sorts.

My heart is a sea of glass

where beneath the water wells.

It is murky in these depths, 

and the light of clarity void.

A silent scream,

A bleeding soul,

disperses into liquid space —

buried.