Where Nothing Sleeps

Headboard
absent

footboard
dust

mattress
vanished

bedframe
rust

an emptiness
the lost heart
keeps

within this room
where nothing
sleeps

Where Nothing Sleeps © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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Submitted: April 16, 2020