Remain

Wishes are sacred
Tell not a soul
Bury them deep inside
Cover up the hole

Blood and bones hold
You together, puppet on
Strings, dangling from
Their fingers helplessly

Don’t speak, don’t listen
Don’t hear, don’t understand
There’s nothing to grow
Everything’s ashes now

A lesson in the briefness

Of eternity, the well dries
Up, cracks and crumbles
Until the skeletons remain