Kierkegaard's leap

i felt your eyes
deflate,
lids droop, light leaked out.
your chest heaved.


the crackle and hiss of the
fire, noosed your marble eyes
and tumbled you into the
flames.

your eyes now opaque,
trailed the smoke as it swerls and dips
its tango to oblivion,
from the twitching flaims.

across the vast gulf of
darkness and silents,

i reached.

my dispair,
absorbed the silents
swallowed the darkness.

my tremmering fingers,
traced the frail dry lines of your hand.

seeking solace, warmth,
attempting to collapse the vastness
between us.

i felt your hand
empty,, expire, with a shiver
of sorrow, and a tremble of
resignation.

your eyes and hands opaque,
as the expanse
swallows us.

i desperate and anxious
lept.