A lifetime tunneling towards void stretched out for a cause      Now it's buried in a mountain of poison-dipped gauze      Embalmed in inky thought      Corpses buried on the banks of the Mississippi River      Now she too, deep in the cold mud, does shiver      The floods drag out the named      Sanctuary decayed         Memory synapses rotted out like broken cars      Her sense of composure is spiralling out to the stars      A gray and soaking weight      Cell wall division corroding under force of tears      Cacophony of voices engaging with her brittle ears      Her face gets no relief      Threnody for her teeth