Today there is only
memory
faith is dead and prophecy
has been fulfilled—
the city lies smoldering.
The poltergeists have all been pacified
and they sleep in vacuum
silent tombs.
The Earth is sick and
nauseating bareness
a battlefield death fog
sorrow.
Outside of the distance,
I do not know how I survived.
I must surely have cancer
My feet are blistered and I've
yet to see another living thing…
I'm starving, ill-prepared, again.
I have tried to bury the dead—
my fingers are raw
caked in blood-mixed mud from
this half-hearted attempt to consecrate,
this self righteous act of penance;
but the foolish guilt remains…
a sad self-appointed messenger,
questionably born
slow to enlightenment
late arrived marathon sprint
no miracles
not even smoke nor mirrors
I was always slothful sleight of hand
Who am I to think I could have
challenged Fate?
And whether reality reflects existence
or existence echoes reality,
this helplessness
this impotence
this hand-tied knowledge…
Here is my liver to devour,
this
is Hell.
I alone,
the individual.
THE END
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