We lost the game.
No scores to be had.
Living was copying motions
of same old ways,
from bygone days.
Immolated landscapes
Unconsecrated ground
Land now sand
Silence the only sound.
People as mannequins
shackled to consumerism
now free to be human
humanity is dead
turned to dust and ash.
Charred trees, charred bones
Libraries and ossuaries
Rock, paper, scissors
Sinners, readers, builders
All on bended knees
Pillars of salt blown away on the blast wind.
Flame extinguished.
Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 9:24 PM UTC
We lost the game.
No scores to be had.
Living was copying motions
of same old ways,
from bygone days.
Immolated landscapes
Unconsecrated ground
Land now sand
Silence the only sound.
People as mannequins
shackled to consumerism
now free to be human
humanity is dead
turned to dust and ash.
Charred trees, charred bones
Libraries and ossuaries
Rock, paper, scissors
Sinners, readers, builders
All on bended knees
Pillars of salt blown away on the blast wind.
Flame extinguished.
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