After the disaster
a silence inside,
an immeasurable void
I try to hide.

Stifling walls of solitude
crush my horizons,
limit my perspectives.
Nothing dies or lives,
Nothing disappears or remains.

There is no fear, future hope
or pain.
Just a white resignation
embracing my soul, contemplating
this distance that separates me
from myself.

Long away ahead to feel
my heart beating fast.
My past is alive in that
casket, in every shadow
I cherish.

Eyes darkened by yesterday
neither see eternity nor stars
as light gets lost in this maze
of illusions and torments.

A cloud of laments hammers
upon me, slices my heart in two
every time I remember I don’t
know how to forget you.

Karla Bardanza