To the Edge of Shadows

for a time that had no measure

I faded away into the nothing

darkness brought relief

in its gentleness there was a kind of loss

There was pain and confusion where I drifted in the emptiness

into the billowing darkness. I was lost

I stand for a long time, staring beyond everything. Feeling nothing more than exhausted and overwhelmed, a blown circuit with nothing left but a blackened spot to show where there had once been something more, something live.

There was pain and confusion where I drifted in the emptiness.

This is what I was. I was nothing; I was lost in the darkness.

efore I agreed, but thought I already knew the answer, it was there in the previous day’s walk into the cit