Nothing Else

In extremity there is nothing else,
the sun’s in eclipse with no diamond ring
never and forever join together
the darkest hour is the darkest flower

there is no way to go on, yet seconds, 
minutes, hours, tick heedlessly on as if
in another universe, become years 
even decades in frozen procession

this is unspeakable, yet it can be,
it is, the extraor…