vacillating
between
the emptiness
within and the
nothingness
that is all
a fool deserves

don’t bother
weighing my broken
on the scales
a single feather
versus a lifetime
drowning in sins
yet unrepentant
feed my heart
to the crocodile
lurking deeply
in the burning sand

there is no
punishment worse
than being this
vacillating
back and forth
between icy
emptinesses