2022-10-17
and so it goes

 Caramelized sugar mixed with the aroma of dead cigarettes.
Maggots in the flesh and hair lined with wax. Images that 
have nothing to display. A deer in a dead field.

 Blessed be those who fail time and time again, for they
have tasted the deafening noise of respite and endured, if
only to fail again. And so we walked.

 Limbless, deaf, blind, with nothing but the vibration
of the dying star to correct our course, we moved. 'But for
what cause?!' Many exclaimed as they drew their last breaths
and collapsed into the ash that lined the gravel path.

 Still, we were not alone, if only for the mirrors that
followed our every step. Of the crawlers among our ranks, 
we knew nothing. Benevolence, altruisms, freedoms - words
in a casket of sweets that left sour taste in our mouths.

 I saw, in the dim light of the hollow moon, her flowing
through the reeds on the banks of Moldau. In twisted visions
that only fools dream, I saw her under the trees that once
breathed. Blasphemous visage of untapped desires.

 Still, we kept on, bruises and all.