June 1, 2019Poem

A pinch and a thump.

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A pinch and a thump.

Pilates later, typically when I feel dead on my feet.

Indifference

Is a cold hand

Squeezing the heart

A frozen ground

An unyielding wall

A breathless void

A death stare

A well of deep confine

Darkness complete

Draining life

With no knowledge

Of its impact

No moment of recognition

Even as a dragonfly

Dances across the sky

Lost in music

The shadow of a rosebush

Flickers across

The veins

Of a marbled floor

Dust motes

Curl into the shape

Of serpents

There is nothing there

To stir the interest

Impassively detached

A callous regard

Of involvement

The cold shoulder

Of dismissal

No warm heart

For anyone or anything

No embers

To be dispersed

Lost to love

The remains of hate

Will smoulder

On a back burner

As, without a care,

Indifference

Turns away