Crater

There is a crater

Carved deep down

In ice and stone

And the warm mist

And rain

Found not any way

Anymore

To awaken the earth beneath

There is a crater

An indifferent crater

Etched onto the surface

Of the moon

There is a crater that

Swallowed the scarlet sun

Whole,

And declared a reign of shadow

There is a mother

That crushed the embryo

Still within

The egg

Lest it hatch

There is a featureless crater

Whose face I cannot conceive

Whose voice, at a frequency too low

For me to hear

Nuclear,

Nuclear in its depth

In its nearness to gravity

And the center, it

Cuts off the circulation

of the Earth

There is a dry 

Stone cold crater 

That conceals

Two parting lips that spew

Magmatic vomit

There is a gaping crater

That shines

A halo

All encompassing

There is a halo

That encompasses everything

That encompasses reason

And sentiment

There is a crater

Etched within the foldings 

Of stone and dry ice

A crater sculpted 

Into the strata of my bowels

Where the warm mist and rain hang

Separate,

Like oil on water

Kept high, kept distant,

Kept dead

By the halo

There is a crater

That beats like a heart

Shaped like a brain, halved

In which a house of thorns grew

Tangled and pubic

There is a crater

Reviews

[Loner]

Deep thoughts that leave an impact on the reader..... Good job!