restlessness has crept into
my room and sits waiting
in the corner insistent as hunger
refusing its usual bowl

now that I've been shown
what I don't have

...

details and distractions clear the mind
the sun can wash off anything, and
the word kill comes easily to the mute.

have faith in human frailty;
what we came for we easily forget
when given a place and more than we dared ask.