No New Star

No New Star

Broken, broken
Senseless, sudden
Routine stolen
Ripped away, without a trace

A life taken, no explanation
Please, no, you must be mistaken
While around, in every detail
Life goes on,
Oblivious
But for the screaming vacuum
Dust-panned debris of devastation
Fragments, remnants still in place
Of a crumpled, tossed aside
Collapse of time and space

Lost, begotten
Hopeless, trodden underfoot
A moment
Trapped in tears that will not come,
Crushed by the weight of a brave face

No greater good,
No new star shining.
Only dust
A gaping void
That nothing can replace.

29 November 2019