For you, my friend

For you, my friend

Drop by drop the sorrow seeps
Filling every crack
Heart and head and leaden limbs
Underwater, drowned
Cold as glass in silent stillness
All colour leeched and thin
Full weight of fathoms down
No rage, rage
Or healing tears, at dying of the light
No keening loud and long
Just wordless grief
O’erwhelming
Too far beyond the sun

21st February 2010, for P M with love