I place words where there aren’t any

Loss is all there is

Foolishness and love left undone are all that remain

When you stop, everything else stops also

Your heart stops

The story you’ve built stops

And it falls forever

There’s no ground to catch it,

Just a void

Of gravity and grief

pulling you down

further

deeper

darker

Then the ghosts start

Their only role is to visit you

To find you

In places… you’d rather not be

To seize your breath, and leave you gasping

And remind you

They’re stuck, with nowhere to go

Not living, nor dying

Purposeless… except in bemoaning their unfinished tale

Dismantling who you think you are

Dismantling the story, you tell yourself

Dismantling the story, you show others

we are your company now

and you

cannot

escape

There is nothing left

you’re here with us

locked in the cage of your making

till you find

The words

The mercy

For us. For yourself

For what cannot be

And your heart breaks

to be born anew.