As Silence Reigns

As Silence Reigns The sun burns its dark crystals in my mind the maple tree oozes its sticky flesh, as the silence reigns Begging sky cries from sun and its scorching flames as blinded ground wakes to scampering winds, their voices roaring into eternity as the silence reigns The flower meadows reach for gasping tones, demanding Nature plunge about its glories and in their frenzy, miss dancing clouds above as the silence reigns The life that invades this body mine, seeks control over sad singing heart to smother love's bounty and allow Time to eat eternity, as the silence reigns Robert J. Lindley, 5-23-2019 Free verse, ( A darkened look into Earth, Life and Eternity ) a poem fragment, comes and stops I that stomp ripe grapes with my feet grasp at shadows from falling leaf, yet fearful of darkness I meet ever mindful of souls in grief. Make wine from grapes plucked by hand pray aloud, as barefoot I stand. A fragment that sets its own sails over waters shimmering deep stray-shot arrows, that heart impales within darken dreams life tells O' pain let mercy see thy face as sorrows replay youth's disgrace.