To Speak

Sometimes

The dam nearly overflows

Its waves swell to skyscrapers

Soaring among the stars

Challenging Heaven itself

Always

Pummeled by those icy claws

They fall, and fall, and fall, and fall

At the dam's great edge they plummet to silence

'Till the pool is still

Touching, but not reaching

Flowing, but not flooding

Swiftly

The smallest ripples fade as Time

Freezes all thoughts left behind

In lifeless glass their glories pass

Unwritten

Unspoken

Unfinished at last