Absorption

For failings, fallings, a lifetime's welling sorrows -

your guilty pools gathered in my hollows;

I sponged your tears with endless sympathy;

you seeped beneath my limestone breast

where calciferous bone has ossified the pain.

All that timeless rain and moonlit leaching

dissolved a cavernous gloom inside.

On moonless nights, I hear the darkness dripping;

and like some reckless caver drawn to murk,

I enter down the echoes carved by hurt

to feel your stalactites pierce my chambers.