Until the day falls there is nothing

I can say, my friend. Until

the mountain kneels. He suffered

so long in wordless suffering, a pain

without wounds. May your brother,

who belongs now to remember,

be restored to light as wood is

by ember. Whatever relief it brings.

Restore him, Unthinkable, before

the voices roiled his head. Before windshield

genuflected before

his trouble-lovely face. Before night

broke like a window, & blackness

spread. Unspeakable, restore us,

we who belong to nothing

that will not cease, to nothing

that will. Until the day falls,

my friend, nothing I can say

that will bring this dark to heel.

Until the mountain kneels.