The crowded trees and bleached barren sky of January
carve into me like knives of bleakness and desolation.
Time goes on moving relentlessly
And with every tick of a second I am reminded
of the pendulum ticking away at my innocence
of the hourglass with sand piling up on the wrong end
I could still hear my mother’s effaced cries in this now hollow house
The silence woven by her absence that took up so much space
Something took me back to the towering
A slow drift that took me before I had realised
I am drowning in cascading waves of yearning
With those mountains colliding within my chest
All that humanity
These are the days she left behind.