Waiting for the fruit to fill with pithy seeds Underneath a barren lifeless tree The carrion hunters spread their wings And fan away the pollen on the breeze
My feet are crumpled sacks of bone and meat My mind an ***** rotten like the orchards Are scattered by my finger blackened pits Inedible attractions for the birds
Famished as a calf without its mother Left by the herd long crossed the overture I cannot get my legs below my body And find the gangly chains so I can stir
They wait above my dwindling departure With slavering testaments to their breed I am abandoned wasting underneath With corpses of the scattered lives time bleeds
My gullet cries the reckless yawning end That lungs have not attempted for so long I let my chin collapse into my chest Close my eyes remembering bygone
Originally written on October 16, 2014. Seventh poem for the Hundred Theme Challenge by The-Poetry-Cafe. A little shorter than I usually write, but maybe that's a good thing for a change. Hope everyone enjoys it [as much as the rest of my stuff, or maybe more, I don't know.] Information on challenge: the-poetry-cafe.deviantart.com Profile: monocephalized.deviantart.com Theme: Heaven.