Though the Dark

For Ridhima

No one and nothing in this world is worthy 

of these precious, pearly tears you shed

the carnage of your heart so stark in your eyes I see

with lost perplexity, this sweeping dread

of shutters on your heart that cries out for a friend

baffled at how they left you high and dry

without a hand to hold, a devastating dead-end

and with all your soul, you wonder why -

The pain you feel won't let you speak

swindled of words you wonder where to begin

through tight-shut eyes this burden does leak

syllables betray you, steeped now in chagrin.

But alone you are not and never will be

Though the dark that besieges is as deep as the sea.