Freeze

Baby steps of assured innocence, traumatic
events of non-existent crumbling.

Thrift tensions into a tangible world
that could never be recognized.

Roll fire and exhaust water on the
instability of the emergency you've
become.

Hide the screams of impatience and loss
in a silent adobe of the brain.

Store opaque cries of colorful facts
and unknown everything
else.

Blank obscurity from the peripheral blindness
of who was.