the night after
he wept
because his arms were nothing-
and the cold
so unbearably cold
without the light
a child without
his security
she had no idea
how it would feel
the world had changed
and where
did this awareness
so full and frightening
arise from
"there is nothing,"
he thought
"to fill this gaping
hole."
what have we done
what have we done?
and she in the forest
feeling naked
and at the most
vulnerable
felt it at the edge
the edge of hearing
is the sound
so constant
unending
until it ends
but the point
is that
it starts
that sound
and it is that of a human heart.
