Barren Earth

Remain in silence or death arrives
at strange doors we are now
Quiet in tranquillity or everything breaks
the bow is strung up
No stepping forward no stepping back
better to remain transfixed
Balanced in calmness
lest one twig shall crack
A brimful chalice
Just one drop more
and everything cascades
Benighted stillness
Elusive daylight
Escape in masquerade
A brimful chalice