Purgatorio

I've met you
Anima Sola
You passed through me
Drifting in an inbetween place
A cracked bone desert
A dry and barren salt flat
Nothing is here
Nothingness and naught

Here the horizon fades into greyscape
Pale and shadowless
Smoldering with ghost fires
Translucent as vapor
Leached of color and heat
Burning like memories
Of ache and loss

Anima Sola
Nothing holds you here
Nothing chains you
In this Purgatorio
Rise up from the dry ground
Come out of the desert
Reel in the silver cord
You have wandered out too long


5/2011