In an unmarked cemetery deep inside my chest
Housed in between bone and flesh
Where emotion and thoughts tend to nest
Lies my heart enveloped in a coffin

There it stays dormant away from the sun
Hidden away from the world all alone
Black as ether by nightfall it roams
Walking through fog into the nothing

It takes a moment to find a place to bloom
Before the light of the sun takes it too soon
Lonely yet comforted by the shroud of gloom
There it stays tender and loving

Forever awaiting a kindred spirit to hold
Sinking away into a dream that’s untold
Ready to unfurl when the night turns so cold
Becoming again something from nothing

© The Black Lotus