violent  is this................
........................lack
of gentlessness

as........
..............settling over
this sense of fatigue
and spiritlessness
when the community is gone!

and it is gone

i try to ask:

"what have you done to yourself?
what have you done with your mind?
why so shallow, the heart?
why this ugliness?
why this fear of death?
why don't you breathe?
where is your breath!?"

but it is all so wrong!

gentle................
.................the loneliness

mere solitude seems
a release

from the weight of your quitting
the fight

with love that
prostitutes the night

and the angry frightened children
now everyone