_Deep in my heart, I ponder in wonder
Exhaling mouth fulls of anxious sighs
The days fading in and out in wander
To nowhere, to no goal it gets nigh

When time seems unmoving and still
And the age unchanging and stagnant
So much so that life's joys are bland
And the world slows to a listless halt_

_I find in dismay, my river of words, frozen
Captured by the cold hands of a dreary world
Imprisoned by the gray clouds of despair
Covered by the dark...