Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Ravages of Stillness







perhaps you found your way in

one night as an aftermath of ruin

or maybe through the savages of war

could it be that you entered during communion

along with the holy ghost...

 

perhaps you were you always there  - brewing

within dormant genes hiding; waiting

until the moment your poison began to pour

inflaming dissidents upon the points of union

as the immune armies go awry with twisting riposte

 

millions of lilliputian hooks, ties and ropes

fastened to every bone joint, muscle and tendon

pulled to stretch taunt against natural kinesis

the inflamed battles of attrition will become a pyrrhic war

won once the bugles of pain are at once – laid still

 

the eyes grow blank and darken into shade of hopes

the once athletic body spun; now locked into joints of mortise and tenon

a sculpture ravaged in silence; pondering the stillness

of the room that is without windows and a closed door

for strength fails the warrior’s will.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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