Going Once…Going Twice…

 Unexplainable sadness

Is heavy and deep

Filled with silent whispers

from hidden places

and its unknown fears to keep.

Oh cumbersome is this load,

For truth and forgiveness is gone.

Vanished now into the blackness of night,

Along with a million bleeding stars

and the remains of many a dead men's bones.

For their graves now lay open

On tundra frozen.

All weeping has now ceased

with all hearts broken.

Shame, oh pitiless shame

How it has cried out my name,

Casting forth more and more

From the gloomy depths

of miseries ensnaring shore.

I shall not go on,

I will not survive,

For the black ghost of sadness

has consumed my mind.

I Can't shake it,

I Can't break it

It will not lift.

I sink now

To depths unknown

Going once…

Going twice…

Gone.

J. Allen Wilson © 2005