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A Divisive City

by izlecan

Which ground shall thine eternity crawl beneath? With agony, thou cry, thou scream and thou sleep Staggering over time, the extensions of gore A morph possessed over the flags: cloistered around throat An uttering of serene eons, of atrophy and of thaw; A morass of hegemony, of identity and war Withered from bullets,drained over the ground A knock on the coffin of tommorrow and   the past A chronology misplaced and outdone And a synapse of presence smothered with the breath of dust Which ground shall thine eternity crawl beneath? With hope, thou bawl, thou shout, thou sleep Chaotic commemoration ruptures over the streets Splatters around an arcane, segregated country Under the mud of enigma lies the rotten leaves of history Away the tomorrow leans, restless and unknowingly For it lies awake with the screams of a rifle, the screeching audibilty of ghostly  mutterings, the camaraderie caught on flesh, between the teeth of craved monarchy For the tomorrow lies awake near the history. For the past suffocates the vivacity Yclept the peace, yclept the tranquility! Which ground shall thine eternity crawl beneath? With anger, thou yelp, thou break, thou sleep A hymn of sigh deafens the petrifying serenity A sigh outraged with the murmur of life Seismic ephemerality tears the ground apart Barges in, the present, whispers a cry The tomorrow lies still over the chunks of calamity Lulled to sleep with the kiss of presence, With the screams of a distant enmity: The burial of time that has been cloistered around the anonymity The burial of the ceased, the past, as a euphemism The burial of the existence, the present, as    a mayhem The burial of the undone, the tomorrow, with a malediction All three in the same grave, punching the timeless, imminent reality they delineated Which ground shall thine eternity crawl beneath? With silence, thou shatter, thou question, thou sleep Down the ground quaffs the time Of a city that no longer breathes Out inundates the prayers of a dilemma For a country is to cleave Fidelity over a continuum, with faded prayers, shares a discourse Befuddled with an antinomy, it asks itself, how an epitaph shall be wrought? Down the ground swallows the confusion Of a city that no longer cries Now, which ground shall thine eternity crawl beneath? To be overwhelmed by a plenitude of halves In the name of peace, in the name of life! Which ground shall I die beneath? To lie awake with an eternal sleep I no longer whisper over the divided streets Not to awaken the past, not to revive the wounds and faded hymns I breathe in the dust, devouring the ceased For a divided city is to be kissed Down I no longer hold an impulse to scream: A gush of presence that arises a breeze That of which billowing up the grave Releasing a future for a road ahead With hope, I bawl, I defy, I beg Yclept the peace, in the name of solidarity!
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Sep 15, 2017
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#divided#society#rivalry#sleep#insomnia#death#past#future#present#war
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