it is past 4 am
or almost
4
or somewhere in between
and you ask-
what are you doing
up at this hour?
-well, I'm making my descent.
and I've been at it
for hours.
weeks,
years even.
then the silence befalls
and at such an hour
it is immaculate
and total.
seductive
and beguiling
i know no secrets,
i am not privy to this
or any other wonderment
for decades
i've made my attempts
but only really entered
grief
and woe
and hurt.
intentioned or not
it is what has occurred.
this descent
has no bottom,
no real end.
despite its
unbearableness
it continues,
it beckons.
i am no monster
i am worse;
a being with ambition,
envious and lost
i see i am
a murderer
of dreams
and they've
left me.
i hold their vacancy
as if it wasn't
just emptiness;
a hollowed-out shell
i mistake
for the glory
of my soul.