slipping quietly away
it took so long
the leaving
mute as shadows
step by quiet step by
tiptoed second
the slow disappearing
barely noticeable
the slow increments
of separation
the widening chasm
the darkening distance
between the leaving
and the left
the left behind
the wreckage
the stripped bones
the abandoned child
the sheets of insomnia
the barbed and broken
understanding
slipping quietly away
taking nothing
leaving everything
to the silent drifts of night
drawing and poem by clinock.
art rat cafe 