when the world stares blindly, boldly into your face relentlessly indifferent whether you live in your sleep or die in your dreams whether your head is empty and hungry or your mind owns a nightfilled sky but cannot see the stars when life itself wonders when it will find itself between your numb fingers even then you do not move even then you will not be moved nor broken nor frozen in restless silent solitude you stand relentlessly indifferent you find your sole company in silent solitude itself borrow its coat when shivers of shattered loneliness run down your spine cherish its frostbitten voice that is yours every one's and no one's all at once when the world stares blindly, boldly into your face you stare back with empty eyes you stare back from time's unbreakable depths and break the eyes that once broke you
