Those times when life
stabs you in the back
in cowardly fashion
and leaves you lying
puddled in your own life-draining force.
When prayers seem to remain-
unanswered
and even more painful-
unheard.
When questions fall by the wayside,
to the place where answers
come in only echoes of your own
mind's invention,
repeating back your queary
as if in mock.
When forward steps
proceed to only knock you back
to a distance even farther
than where you first set out
on the journey.
When nothing,
seems to much to ask
and all you get for your efforts anyway...
...is nothing.