Fierce aloneness freezes my eyes shut,
darkness pervades like a dampened heavy cloak
My shoulders fall forward
the void of all voids
beckons me into her deep embrace
This cannot be my fate
Not now
Not today
I fear falling and falling forever
Gripped by this place
I shout for HELP reaching my hands into the nothing
hands meet mine
the most tender loving hands
that guide me, I know not how
I begin to place delicate tremulous steps before me
the fear ebbing away
my body unfurls like a flower in the spring sun.
