Daginne Aignend writes

Nirvana 

 

The tears of Empathy

quench the thirsty stones

of the desolate mind

of the withered creature

called Loneliness.

Loneliness, hesitant,

starts to lick the saline liquid

First of the smallest pebbles

A droplet of Hope is seeping through

the cracked surface,

as suddenly Greed arrives

Greed overwhelms Loneliness,

makes its fibers swell

until they explode

Pleasant streams

of comforting Silence mingled

with calm Serenity

Ending in a total Nothing

NIRVANA

Loneliness -- Gabrielle Gaulin

  

Greed --  Gabrielle Gaulin

"Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed." 

-- Thomas Harris, "The Silence of the Lambs"