The numbed mind releases pure thought of logic and pride Skin crawling with a legion of pinpricks underneath the flesh A sudden stiffening leaves all feeling blocked Silent screams from the gaze of dead and colorless eyes Tears drip down the side of a barely beating heart Pumping nauseous thought throughout the veins Inching across every piece of exhausted body Twitching fingertips that reach out for no one Everything that is, being poured into the bottomless gap All energy drained, an empty vessel Treading the scorched fields that once burned with passion Cracked and riddled, no will to go on Mind racing while limbs crawl at the slowest pace Skeletal hands holding the beating heart Their cold touch freezing all within Rain pelting holes through tender remains of the strong man Cold steel of knives protruding from the back Grinding against the spine slowly cutting away cerebral ties The anchor risen from a sinking ship as the tide pulls it under Drowning in a rapid current of emotion and doubt Darkness enveloping all rationality, a cocoon of deep piercing spikes Ever closer to the edge of the windy cliff, threatening to push just enough Falling through time and space back to innocence and freedom A black and white picture, familiar faces with unfamiliar smiles Things lost as age withered away all youthfulness Scroll of film burned by the dying projector Life flashed before dead eyes Black accompanied by the last few beats Echoing the cries that go unheard Until the last beat sounds into deaf nothingness Life ceased as time races forward Sleep with eyes forced open to watch as the end approaches The colossal ****** of the wilting world Behold, Destruction. c.d.l 2/11/12