Grief Shatters All Hope. For P...(Completed Poem).

Now you have gone

I am lost in a self made maze of metal and glass

Through which I can glimpse distorted images

Of all things past,

But tomorrow is just a darkness,

A shadow on the retina that terrifies

As though the onset of blindness

Is imminent and not to be avoided.

This is the jail I have built for myself from grief,

A jail that I can never now cut free from

Although I have made the cells, the locks, the keys

With my own self deceptions and anxieties.

Now you are gone love is out of the question,

All the new faces I see are blank - are meaningless.

Dreams - the past reimagined. - my one reality;

The truth is far too brutal - far too harrowing.

Trevor John Karsavin Potter. 

23rd. - 25th. July 2023.