Wait Long Enough

Wait long enough

and faces morph
into shadows,
shadows stretch into
blurry shapes,
spongy black,
as if the entire void
fell into your eyes
while you were
sleeping.

Wait long enough

and voices drown
in whispers,
whispers freeze
into sheets
of white,
shrouds
for every
silent word
that you were
screaming.

Wait long enough

and smiles tiptoe
into arcs of pain,
pain dances
in the opaque fog,
you can’t remember
what it felt like,
the golden sun,
before it started
raining.