Overwhelming

Daylight fell into twilight, twilight fell into the night to leave me on a painfilled cobbled road where I stumbled into the murky dark confused, disoriented feeling the gushing waves of upheaval throbbing in my chest where my heart was once full and is now an empty vessel submerged by pain suffocating in a cavernous sea of sadness I begin to wander in circles as the road grows smaller and the stars drip from the sky one after another like mournful raindrops that splatter at my feet leaving a pool where nothing lives I'm alone, cold in a desolate space where all that was drifts by my lungs fill with the black smoke of yesterday's ashes I try to hold back the rising tsunami that is welling in my eyes where the only sound I hear is my heart crying 3/24/23 contest Writing Challenge "O" words sponsor Constance La France Overwhelming