Dry Heat

Paul Smith

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Elegy

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I’ve sailed oceans of agony

lost in fog

navigation long gone

 

moored in desolation, down I gazed

and dropped a single tear

rippling for a thousand miles

the brine below mirrored in my eyes

 

then torment came in waves

capsized, I sank into bitter darkness

at first broken by gleams of light, faint

a familiar sight

reflections of the world above

 

further I sank

keeled to a crushing depth

where men, weighed in horror

leaden with doom

plead with the unfathomable void

insensible and indifferent

 

the awful truth

submersed in sorrow

an abyss like no other

cold and silent

empty

the blackness, the darkness

forever

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