He is blessed to have not lost a hair, despite his climbing age.
He is both nearsighted and farsighted; can see every turning page.
His gray mustache is thick; his smile is jovial; he is grandfatherly.
He is loved by many for his outgoing, convivial personality.
One might say that death would be quite peaceful with this fellow,
But who is to be warned that he will not even see the morrow?
A pipe bounces in his lips as he tells heroic stories to the children:
“He hoists up his pack and fights to reach the peak of the mountain.
“He battles the knifelike snow as it attacks like thousands of spears.
They stab his burning eyes, and blizzardly winds scream in his ears.”
But what is on the other side of the mountain? What lies beyond?
What is so great that the suspense and action must be prolonged?
The man’s face tightens, his eyes go distant, his body goes rigid.
It is as if his brain has suddenly transformed into a slimy liquid.
With a rough cough and a puff of smoke, the pipe falls to the floor,
Spilling out unused tobacco; it is a quiet, unsettling roar.
The man’s eyes grow dark; his face turns from healthy to deathly white,
And his head slumps down, staring at his knees, the children affright.
As a droplet of blood seeps from his nose and caresses his dry lips,
And a restless bead of sweat travels down the bridge and the tip,
The children scatter like cockroaches, searching for the darkness—
Some comfort to ease the horror and the pain and the sadness—
Somewhere to empty their minds of this terror into a black hole—
Someplace that they can entomb their thoughts with the secret, unknowable scrolls—
An undisturbed place where their innocence can be embraced and consoled—
Yet is there such a place where the recesses of the mind do not unfold?
But already the old man is forgotten, as are his great stories and tales.
He slips from all conscious minds and leaves nothing, no details.
No questions arise; his whereabouts are not wondered; he is decoration:
A work of nature’s art that is meant to stir up onlookers’ admiration.
His beautiful stillness strikes a long, thin, metallic chord of inspiration:—;
But it is the gong of fear and disgust that overrides these ponderations:—
Fear and happiness battle symphonically to make the best music.
Fear wins because screaming noise shall always reign over acoustics.
A young man, unmarried upon seeing his bride-to-be hung in her room,
Has enclosed himself in his own prison and will not come out soon.
It is rectangular and copper, putting a deep taint on the world outside.
Long gone is his decency, his health, his love, and his signature pride;
Long gone is the liquid of delusional ecstasy that once filled this bottle
That he now resides in. He feels that he has lost a hopeless battle.
His skin is whitening, the color in his irises are fading, his body is thinning.
Everything in him is collapsing dejectedly as his skeleton continues creeping.
He hums an arrhythmic tune with a salmagundi of conflicting emotions:—;
The phantasmagorical manifestation of mental convulsions:—
The hot flames of Hysteria make love with the cool rains of Sadness;
Joy—giddy and intoxicated—rapes Hatred with confetti and madness;
Anger blossoms as a spring flower and attracts the red blood of Love;
The screams of this beastly mating is heard in the heavens above—
Oh, the horrendously whorish screams, how the animals salivate!
The wails of bastardly offspring! How the corruption does culminate!
One can only marvel at the dishonor that the unabashed Morality
Has taken! How can one now differentiate between dreams and reality?
How does one now describe dreams—so ****** and violent, but perfect?
Or reality—so disinteresting and faulted, not a wanted soul in it?
The entrapped man has every answer, imprisoned in a cell, like him,
But why should he utter a word at all when he is his very own phantom:—?
He answers only to himself, never reveals the codes he has deciphered.
So many anomalies, oddities, and complexities that he has been inspired.
As his breath walks away with loud shoes and its head held high,
The world is suddenly transfixed and does not want to see him die.
They know not his name or profession, nor can they remember his appearance.
Even so, he has been unexpectedly labeled as their guide, their endurance.
But he froths at the mouth and urinates freely, like a wild, untamed animal—
For even humans become animals, and grow further to become cannibals.
Shall all of society tumble because of a lost faith put into the faithless?
Needless to say, an impalement on jagged rocks will not be painless.
Upon the gong, a naked woman is on her knees, her wrists tied behind her back,
And her ankles shackled. She is a pained, a contradictory nymphomaniac:
Oh, how it hurts, but how thrilling! What is pleasure without the slightest pain:—?
Deception! Nothing! It is suddenly worthless and full of absolute disdain!
The woman looks up with bubbly, tearing eyes and awaits the cannonade
Of gripping and violent desire. She will gladly be a toy, and a toy she is made:
A sword descends and inserts itself into the woman’s welcoming throat.
She gasps at the cold metal; how deep it falls, how it makes her feel afloat.
How her ******* bulge with warm milk and her hips shake with anticipation
Of what the sword has to bring: Happiness, glee, lust, and beautiful vibrations.
She pants and chokes as the sharpness slices her inside; she tastes blood.
The sword breaks flesh, finds her womb, and fills it like a flood.
******—******—******—!
Gulp—******—gulp—******—!
Oh, how her desires are exploding, going far beyond the limitations.
The tastes of fulfillment come from the monsters of intimidation.
She coughs; a crimson blob fountains and drenches her cheeks, neck,
And her mermaidian black hair, like soft silk across her smooth back.
Whatever blood she does not catch, the gong of fear and disgust catches,
And it is painted redder than Judgement Day’s moon. The blood attaches
Itself and becomes one with the gong and sings it's now morbid song.
As the woman’s lungs are violently ripped out, she feels nothing wrong.
Nor does she feel at all as her heart is shredded within her tireless chest.
Rivers of blood flow down her impure body—its warmth is the best
And brings dizziness to her he head, tears to her eyes, and wetness to her legs.
Even as she weakly collapses, eviscerated, she continues to long, to beg.
The gong of fear and disgust vibrates roughly, sparking hormones—
The hormones of terror and revulsion that help her to never be alone.
As the corpses rot below the acidic waters, the blood polluting
It even further, horrors beyond comprehension begin rooting.
The gong of fear and disgust drones over he mountains, emotionless,
In a great search to find a host. And searching has never been hopeless.
Catch its eye, and be afraid, or catch its eye, and breathe fire.
Either way is a dangerous pursuit of will and courage—a dance on a wire.
Fly—
Goodbye