The Bait

I waited 

for the bait

patiently,

at the bottom-most bowels of nothingness

where days drag by sluggishly,

days laden with frozen hours,

hours dripping with laboured minutes,

minutes with plodding seconds...

Lure me with 

a restive thought,

an unfinished tune,

or even a piece of shattered pain 

fading away from memory,

release me

from this deadening numbness...

Catapult me

from these desolate depths

like a stone,

that i may feel

the smothering air,

and scatter across the skies

a handful of broken stars...