Pardon?

 

No light penetrates the nothingness

 

Black as the inside of a coffin

 

Hollow souls echo in a limitless void

 

The last word in the world

is a murmured Pardon?

 

B.R. 19/05/2016

 

 

Untitled (Black on Grey) (1970) by Mark Rothko.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.