My Blackhole by Lolly Vieira

the minutes crawl by

counting seconds in inches

doomed to the test of time

while the earth sits still

and your emptiness

consumes me alive

exhale without inhaling

I gave up all my breath for you

gasping, fainting

I’ll be but ashes in moments

liver and will failing

losing all of my components

no sense of who I am anymore

I am lost walking through a desert

avoiding your land mines of anger

my flame no longer burns brightly

your silhouette sits in my charred eyes

a lingering in my frontal lobe,

a conundrum worth releasing

you incinerate my soul

yearning for the answers

that you have sickly swallowed whole

destroy me again

my darling blackhole