crave what came before
connection lingers, softly
blue-white light breaks the fall
circuits real through bone

eyes down, pray silently
let music flood your eardrums
ignore, neglect the traveler
who sits as so do you

an actor paid in penance
empty lines in his script
does force the sand to falter
the waves as punishment

decree the girl but broken
stretched thin and vacant eyes
pray, call far into the empty
hope your call is not declined

find what’s been sent for you
a signal, weak and true
for impurity in the water
does too but impurify you