Hunger's Needle

Hunger's Needle Acumen's voice smolders quietly when deafened ears respond only to discords of witlessness Wisdom's heat invites comfort its embers remain alive its wake of constant resolve lifts vigils of swirling persuasion choking away illiteracy ignoring cross or sickle waved ominously Ever present Creation's insight remaining airborne in a void for those with causeless breath being held affecting not its surroundings forever stale ether locked roiling chasms of fear exuding odiferous spoilage rotting polluting repelling Such misery holds steady among repeated indulgences of flesh the masses' quintessential reptilian skin long overdue for shedding But cling it must this resistance to reflection and growth feeling safe in unknowing the rewards of philological pondering Sign and verbal touch and smell eye and ear an all-sensitive motion making ready transference from literal to ethereal possession For some a chosen distance is preferred a huddled observation from deep in the abyss of ignorance self-importance perishing alone amidst a cacophony of unresolved noise while wisdom's whisper continues to thread hunger's needle