Esperanza

One by one
you will leave.
You will step forward
in pre-decided order
and enter the cage
which is your future.

You will leave your
past and the
never ending present.
You will head from
a silence of darkness
into the dim dawn.

As each one leaves
there will be another silence
and each silence
will be different from the last.
Then there will be none
and the greatest silence of all.