THE SIDELINES OF SILENCE

Purposeful strides, brooding determination

Eyes forward towards the road ahead

A poet's prize conceived in motion

A vision that sparks furious writing

Waiting recessed in a backward space

No calm in this quiet condition

Loss leaves a sense of amputation

Collective sigh released to normalise breath

Tangled action suspended in a web

Wait until dark is swept by time's broom

Shadows look for opportunity

to fray the nerves steeled in experiment

The mirage on the sidelines disappears into silence

Brooding strides, purposeful determination

Forward, the road ahead towards the eyes

A motion poetic concealed in a prize

Writing that sparks from a furious vision

Space recessed backwards in waiting

No condition quite like this calm

Amputation leaves a loss of sense

Breath collected normalises released sighs

Suspended web entangled inaction

Time, broom-swept, waits by the dark

as opportunity looks into shadows

The experiment of nerves that frays steel

The sidelines of silence disappear into the mirage