Defeated In Sleep

it follows that sharp slivers of time warp like wild geese reflected across still water winging faces sway'd as wheat seas pitied not by thresher's flail rictus hidden in a camera's eye fetus, elders left to die teach and learn as life grows short moments gulped in forgotten days sun rays down casting men without shadows tragedies in bildungsroman of children innocent but heartless folded parchment in dustbins hidden blossoms thrive in ancient midden justice, honor, paean to the gods distill down to cold control foreign tongues with open hands empire's wall breached wide within and so, with prosody quicksilver fled small words swallowed by larger mien I, deep sigh, with agon's leap fall back defeated in dreamless sleep...