Chasm

Great defining voids loom 

Amity turns dark, engulfing 

Friendship developing cracks 

Another tie unbinds, unwinds, disintegrates 

 Destructive years shared languish 

 Silence screams in our presence 

Detached and tuned out 

United in our pretension 

Fronting a cheery facade 

 Words may not mend it 

Intentions will not patch it 

The time of deeds left undone

 Now upon us as we ignore

 Indifferent to what is no longer there 

 Circling in distant kind thoughts 

Fond remembrances fade with the sunset 

Of the days we had together 

We will try to sleep them off 

Troubled souls rest fitfully 

And dreams do not last

PS - A piece I began many years ago. I offer it now as not so much a comment on what is going on in my life as something I did and now want to share. I have reworked it and most likely will again if the spirit moves me.