Silence

A clock chiming
The mournful peal
Scores of hours
Bleed ever away
Frozen with fear
Hope's toxic sting
Faith's dying light
And sanity betrayed

Time's weary rot
Corroding resolve
Hope infests the calm
Of purgatorial silence

Uncertainty grows
Eternities in moments
Cancer to the soul
The helpless in lament

Time's weary rot
Corroding resolve
Hope infests the calm
Of purgatorial silence
Paralysis of inaction
Eternity of a moment

Abyssal majesty
The obsidian tide
Consumes him whole
Consigned to the depths
Cast unto eternity
A watcher waits
Upon tortured shore

A reunion denied

Never to return