Eventually

splinters of life fall
through the cracks of
the wooden floor of
our minds just as
easily as light pierces

the souls of the dead
and they are abandoned
in the ground, waiting
for the reign of terror
to end as abruptly as
it had begun for them
when alive and will
had nothing to fear
save life itself which
it finally did them in
as it will happen to
all of us eventually.

2Jan17