By Briana Kassia
Date: 2007 Apr 29
Comment on this Work
[[2007.04.29.19.14.20544]]

Lacrimae

words fail
on the absence of presence
in the emptiness of night
in the bleak opacity of the pain

only the unheard ache
tears, gasps, clenching and knotting
and too fast
the beating of a frightened heart