Nov 2021
Hell is here
And here
And everywhere you don't want it to be
You cut to the part of the play where we see Rome burning
YOU: Sisyphus! Here is your rock!
ME: Thanks, I thought I lost it!
I hit pause.
Up I go and down I come a
Merry-go-round that throws up red water
Free as a stallion
Free as a show pony
Running running running—
You pull me back into the auditorium
With a thought unheard in an unclean
Chalice I can't help but drink from
Water from my head filling the crevices that are
Hidden deep
Deeper
Deepest and—
Cue the [crash]! and [burn]!
(Ha! Get it! You’re burning in hell!)
That’s all this is, isn’t it?
A carefully scripted (comedy) tragedy by a (God) Devil.
I read the script again.
You’re drowning in the fire of your sins
"Condemned by the Father you once loved
Like an unfulfilled prayer
Gathering dust in hell."
I throw it in the fire.
Running running running.
And here
And everywhere you don't want it to be
You cut to the part of the play where we see Rome burning
YOU: Sisyphus! Here is your rock!
ME: Thanks, I thought I lost it!
I hit pause.
Up I go and down I come a
Merry-go-round that throws up red water
Free as a stallion
Free as a show pony
Running running running—
You pull me back into the auditorium
With a thought unheard in an unclean
Chalice I can't help but drink from
Water from my head filling the crevices that are
Hidden deep
Deeper
Deepest and—
Cue the [crash]! and [burn]!
(Ha! Get it! You’re burning in hell!)
That’s all this is, isn’t it?
A carefully scripted (comedy) tragedy by a (God) Devil.
I read the script again.
You’re drowning in the fire of your sins
"Condemned by the Father you once loved
Like an unfulfilled prayer
Gathering dust in hell."
I throw it in the fire.
Running running running.
some background to perhaps understand the poem: so i made the mistake of reading Fear and Trembling by kierkegaard and went through an existential crisis. kierkegaard basically argues that all that we do in life—all our hobbies, exercises, day-to-day activities—are simply things we use to ignore and keep us ignorant from the fact that life ultimately has no meaning from an individual standpoint. nothing matters. This isnt a new idea that i didnt know about before or anything but idk reading his work just shook me. and so i made this poem alkdsjfh so uh yeah aslkdjf just a small background
