Nothingness

A clearing
Beyond the tallest trees
A clearing
Where nothing lives
The sky darkens
The earth burns black
The air made heavy
with human death.
A scream
far beyond keeping
A scream
of pain and sorrow
The mist descends
The massgrave fills
The dream of this world
fades from knowledge
A blind man
Hears the horror
A blind man
Aged by burden
The first of many
The last to hear
The blind man continues
on his path to nothingness