Ruffled Feathers

I took the dislocated and the frazzled pieces,
the parts of a larger and more elegant design
than you or I.
I assembled a space;
I created the shared nothing.

And the abandoned and shattered
and remaining pieces
grew to surround us and become us
and the nothingness inside grew too.

We struggled to fill it,
then we were crowded.
And the fragile occupants
 and entities were swallowed
by the nothingness.

Fractured walls caved,
until only the ideas remained.
Frightened, you joined the wind.
You left me alone to rebuild.

I listen to the ghosts,
and I'll do anything they say.