And It Comes To This

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.