Darkness Overhangs My Shoulders
Shadows hang
Heavily upon my shoulders
My head overcast
In darkness
Of a cloudy
Be-shrouded day
The sun's light eclipsed
By gloom
The hole
I find
Where once my heart
Did dwell
Life now an empty
Missing pulse
Walking
In a timeless,
Off beat way
This darkness
Is my fate
To be
Consigned to ash
And dust and earth
My soul only
Old soil
For new life
by Hugh M. Lewis
Seasons
Odd Ends: Perennial Poesy along the Way
2005
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