How can I feel anything at all
No longer alive, but weeping still
Waterfalls become rivers in the cavern
Where my heart once beat
A silent ocean calm
Tranquil
Dark and cold
Buried under stone shaped like bones
There’s no rhythm to my blood
No spark or twinkle in my eye
Lack and more lack
Making room for art and song
A dirge for love lost
I buried hope under divine dreams
What a love did grow there
That ran off with my heart
How shall I live
Without my heart
Beating here in this cavernous chest
Each breath in a painful remembrance
Each exhale a soft let go
I sigh your name
Bid you once and twice
Return to me
My heart
Where love did blossom
Even in winter’s frozen landscape
A garden of hope
A spirit of joy and light
In the darkest days and longest nights
