Dusk Poem by Mona Adviento

After the point of exhaustion
When the anger has been purged from my veins
Beyond all the forms of distraction
When I think I’ve been rid of my chains,

The Silence creeps in oh-so-slowly
And wraps around my heart once again
A deafening sound, it seems deathly
More intense than ‘twas before then.

And the crystals that have previously hardened
All broke loose from the biers of my eyes.
The wounds that I thought were then mended
Each dehisced as I was wracked by my cries.

Stunned and sad, I now sit on that corner
That I have escaped from for so long.
I have never felt I was a mourner
Till that moment with my unheralded song.

My tears in a pool, all cascading
My heart all a-thump with this pain,
My soul is defeated and lamenting
Nothing now in the place you’ve once lain.

I am left with a valley of silence
With a darkness that descends from above,
I exist now without thy presence
In the twilight of my once-great love.