There's A Hole In The World

The fire falls in an endless battle of the night.
Someone, on the other side, staring back
Looking just as I do now.

Watching the ancient ones
The firsts
Praying their journey will soon end,
And the world will be free of its poison.

The cavern is deep
Falling relentlessly
A break, a chasm
An unrelenting passion for what must be
And what could never have been.

And still the voice never comes
Two people
Locked in an endless cycle
Cannot lie
Cannot leave
Cannot forget.

The charges are many
When did it disappear?
Did you see?
Jutting from the round walls
Like stone crystals that have lost their shine
But do not fall, for you will never stop
The bottom never comes, is invisible
Does not exist.

And still he looks back at me
A smile, a frown, a grimace I shall never see.
My time will end
And another will be chosen
To carry on the deed I was burdened.
Vast, empty, nothingness, yet loud as a roar in space.
There's a hole in the world.