The Sky Inside

What is Inside

The sky inside

is colored in a field of grays

there is a place inside where rain

does not feed the grass

and overgrown forests

are a place to be lost

There is a river buried

deep

that flows over bridges and breaks down

the dam

taking in all that is rainfall

all that is the deepest and most subtle

called despair

you are buried there

The ground is ash and that stuff

that remains when things have been burned

to the ground

and in the woods

I am lost

and can’t be found.

2/20/14