Carbonite
Nothing but cold and darkness
lost in the void and the vain
nothing but frozen hardness
and nonexistent pain
Nothing - confining vastness
non-colours mirrored in black.
Nothing - myself in past tense;
never coming back?
Blind eyes, closed mouth, though wide open
see not and speak not and scream.
The hands raised in a last token:
a touch that as yet has not been