The Drums

Tonight the drums
Throb
And where do I go
To evade the percussion?

I plug my ears
With prayer.
I stop my ears
With the recollection
Of what she’d said.

Learn
She said.
Learn to be alone.

Learn
She said.
Learn to be alone
She said
She said
Learn.

The drums never stop.

Outside my room
The dark
Cormorant sea
Beats the coast
And I think
How lonely
I am
How lonely
Is the rhythm
The perpetual rhythm
Of isolation.