Nathaniel 1

Nathaniel 1

How does one continue
When fate crashes
Into shores
And out of skies
To point where one is numb
& the mind perceives some kind of joke
In the solemn and the pure
When tears have reached a point
Where they can no longer leave

What happens to a body
Wracked by living grief
& dying grief,
When the eyes can no longer hide
Themselves, the mouth can no longer
Continue to turn into every day,
When the heart is sitting
In a hole in parched ground

When going seems more than staying,
& then the black comes
What happens
When the voice of Love is drowned
And the ties are loosened
Is it that?
The deafening sound,
And the hope for semblance of peace

When things that mattered
And the people utterly
Changed and Crushed
Become a distant cry of a newborn
bird high and far
What was it that robbed
Our beloved from us
How do we pick up from where
He left off

How do we see him again & fly
Into the darkest part of an eye,
Looking and imagining
A future any better
Than this exquisite day.