…waves of pain roll over me

Weightless and shifting
in the shallows of my skin

shadows circle
without and within

elegantly veined images
dance upon my eyelids

whirling like dervishes
in dissonant slow motion

eyes wide shut
I can’t un-see them

waves of pain roll over me
drained of everything

I am drenched
in the colours of midnight

fragile and foggy
out of body

floating empty
above myself

drifting away
from cloudy thoughts

into the all-embracing
whispers of darkness

still weightless and shifting
in the shallows of my skin

© Ann Bagnall