Darkness of Sound

I can’t think in this mess
I can’t repair 

With this darkness 

Of sound 

This incessant clashing of brain and heart 

The nagging of unfinished business 

A life incomplete 

I let it slip away 

Turn from gold to dust in my hands 

I watched it 

Unaware 

Now I cannot go back 

To do what I left undone 

To say what I left unsaid 

To love what I left unloved 

For this darkness 

Of sound 

This incessant clashing of brain and heart 

Won’t allow it 

And all I can hear 

Is the beating 

of my mislead heart