klaxon's holler

terrible wish that all will be fine
screaming in a foggy night
without a sound heard
by any ear
but the one in your head

a kind of madness
that sound begets
hardly delicate --
klaxon's shriek of awareness
sounding doom on one note only

sounded first on first day
plays
long through years
'til last day
in human ears

loudest at the end --
then silent
over -- it's over
silence gathers
gladly

omniscience
alive if not well
a starship traveling
infinity alone
to end and back again

torn -- trying to be whole
in cold of space --
can still be heard
klaxon's holler
mindlessly braying

on one note.

vcp

3 December 2010