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Humans come and go, Existence melts like snow Stained an angry red. We’d be better off dead: Strewn on the autumn ground Where leaves slowly compound Their scarlet shades a-seeping, And we forever sleeping. Children, listen close: Do not become the host Of deceit’s deadly blight. Power is a parasite. It’s easier, you’ll find, To leave the law behind When faced with what’s unfurled: Purge evil from this world And **** **** **** The wind whistling shrill Is mimicking their cries. Everybody dies, But some with lesser worth. The winds shift back and forth To cover their pale faces, Safe in hidden places. ****** were their bones to rot Until the Earth forgot What sickness walked its soil. Let ivy softly coil Around their vile remains. Thank nature for its pains: Pray we’re rid of the worst Of mortal beings so cursed. Some drift among the waves That carry unmarked graves Of countless peaceful souls. The tide endlessly rolls And whispers countless names Of once-extinguished flames Smote in the ink-black sea, Hushed for eternity And binded in their fate. Their bones sink with its weight And scrape along the floor, Touched by the sun no more As stars look coldly on. It seems my soul has gone To the sea to plot. (I know, I know. I thought That normal were such musings, but I find I seem to visit there a lot,) On any given whim. It waits there, quiet, grim Under the waxen moon. It will come to me soon, With a salt-weathered shell And many tales to tell. Sometimes I think that-- hey, Don't quickly walk away. When our time comes, they say, The ocean will hold our bones too, someday.
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Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 3:56 PM UTC
For Haden
Humans come and go, Existence melts like snow Stained an angry red. We’d be better off dead: Strewn on the autumn ground Where leaves slowly compound Their scarlet shades a-seeping, And we forever sleeping. Children, listen close: Do not become the host Of deceit’s deadly blight. Power is a parasite. It’s easier, you’ll find, To leave the law behind When faced with what’s unfurled: Purge evil from this world And **** **** **** The wind whistling shrill Is mimicking their cries. Everybody dies, But some with lesser worth. The winds shift back and forth To cover their pale faces, Safe in hidden places. ****** were their bones to rot Until the Earth forgot What sickness walked its soil. Let ivy softly coil Around their vile remains. Thank nature for its pains: Pray we’re rid of the worst Of mortal beings so cursed. Some drift among the waves That carry unmarked graves Of countless peaceful souls. The tide endlessly rolls And whispers countless names Of once-extinguished flames Smote in the ink-black sea, Hushed for eternity And binded in their fate. Their bones sink with its weight And scrape along the floor, Touched by the sun no more As stars look coldly on. It seems my soul has gone To the sea to plot. (I know, I know. I thought That normal were such musings, but I find I seem to visit there a lot,) On any given whim. It waits there, quiet, grim Under the waxen moon. It will come to me soon, With a salt-weathered shell And many tales to tell. Sometimes I think that-- hey, Don't quickly walk away. When our time comes, they say, The ocean will hold our bones too, someday.
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F/United States
Apr 22, 2020
Apr 22, 2020 at 3:56 PM UTC
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