Dead Challenges

DEAD CHALLENGES 11 March 2016 . That engulfing emptiness that weighs in sobs, a granite-topped mountain; . that blighted black hole that is blocked with rock-hard isolation; . that battered “road-closed” sign and the barrier, blocking the forlorn, forgotten lane; . that rubber raft in a maddened sea; . that sinking, down, down, down to other drowned solutions.