Your eyes no longer read the words I write, this silence deafening. Within the confines of the cage within my chest, this withered organ's beats are slowing; it yearns for more but cannot reach out. There was a voice once, a poet's song from once before. But the tongue is stilted, those lungs filled up with brine; drowning in the harrowed past and uncertain future. Those for whom the words are written care naught the poet's pointless prose. So I lay down the pen I've held for so long, and let the ink run dry...