Absence

Cotton padded futures
slowly approach the web
of silken traps
willing victims to
the predictability of
labyrinths of trails
meshed into
days and dreams.

Promises burn
on the ancient pyre
undecipherable smoke signals
to Marble Eternity

Time ticks away
frozen horizontal streams
of regrets over
hours of fallen beginnings
and seconds of endless
absence

Copyrighted Rahman,Brigitte Arlette-2000