Hidden calm in a corner She whispers, distraught, to it Like a maiden miserly of saving Ears unhinged from the cacophonies flying amok Eyes inflamed with blinding unholiness Her worth, exhausted with the world's venom But there it lay, profoundly Always in her reach A fragment of herself Buried in a sleeping past Arms dipping the depths of silence Solace, she seized Raising to life a lost will within her dormant abyss And make light of the chaos shadowing her