black feathers
"black feathers"
black feathers
I followed along the path
white feathers absent
dissolved like melted snow
black as ash
I touched them
and wrote their worth
as ink along my stoney walls
their stories like stains
ingrained for all
black feathers
like tears the words do reign
such strange royals
they kneel like poets
upon soft minds, and placed
like unblessed sacraments for curse
upon their harsh tongues for verse
they all fall
in time
black feathers
at the feet of none
Candide Diderot. ‘25
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