Casualty Attack: the Fantasy of Death and the Desire of Guilt
---Casualty Attack---
Like old memories
legs giving out
having grown tired in waiting
slouch through the
cheese cloth of mind and
sour perception in guilt.
Guilt is the culture of the mind,
a great fungal expanse
of 'what could be's
and 'why did I's.
Guilt is the past
expecting that
lost futures deserve to
haunt the mind.
The Death of
what we are not
is a constant peril
for even the sturdiest of heads.
That these ghosts are owed anything
is the tragic play of the soul,
seeing as we are still
inclined to assume death as
'passing on'.
We'd trick ourselves into
believing that our life
leads up to
'allowing' death to along.
Yet Death only erupts
in the ultimate dismisal
of control.
Life proceeds to this point.
Life is all that passes.
It is our quiet ownership
of mythical Death that
plants ghosts in our
mind
and
the greatest trick
the past ever pulled
was to make of us
owners of it's dead.
but
Death is nothing to own.
Cannot be held in definition;
Death is abscense,
a face which cannot mirror.
We are such inconceivably contrieved
creatures that we will
never witness the most
significant point in our lives,
namely, our death,
and this lack
is the fuel to which
the past burns guilt in our eyes.
Copyright © Local Order | Year Posted 2018
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