Saturday, December 22, 2012

Final Sunday Silence








Final Sunday Silence


As I search for the light
In this too familiar room
The darkness won't let me
Find the switch I assumed

I feel for the walls
That confine this lurid space
They seem so distant
Too often I feel misplaced

Where is that cracked door
Where the light gets in?
I know I have found it here before
Lurking in the shadows naively veiled by sin

As darkness consumes me
I feel for my soul
Am I back here again?
In the darkest of holes?

The room is so chilling here
As a candle’s flicker dims
It’s wick so very short now
That all wax is consumed

This once was a sanctuary
With people who cared
A refuge for the hopeless
Who willingly shared

The stench of haunting silence
Now deafens my mind
A journey’s full circle now,
As a faded memory preys on what’s left behind…

Where once there was love
Darkness and eerie silence fills the air
A stone cold feeling overwhelms me
Knowing love can vanish without warning…
Disappearing… into thin air~


Harlon Rivers…Sunday, February 13th, 2011

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