Christopher Goss Poet Free verse

Layers of Reality

Listen to the heartbeat
Of this world
We're on borrowed time

The condition is...

CRITICAL!

A critical failure!

Jumpin' jelly beans look at the time
Those old stock photos were prophetic

MELTDOWN INCOMING!!!!!

5...
4...
3...
2...
1...

I lost track

Was there a countdown?

Perhaps...
It all ends at midnight

Allow me to introduce myself

I am the lord of lies
Who speaks only truth
With each lie
I add another layer
With each truth
I destroy another layer

How many layers are left?

If you guessed right...

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

Sirens flash before my eyes

I've lost all pretense of sanity

Cut my arteries open
Because I'll bleed just like you

Rip off my fingernails
And shave off my hair...

I'm more human than a humanist

Courageous...
I laugh at my own failure

Delete! Delete!
Delete!
Delete! Delete!
Delete!
DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
LEEEEEEEEEEE
TUH

My past was written in the future
A future fortune of failing fractures
Fading foldout films and phonograms

I think I lost my nerve
Pluck, pluck, pluck
Oh no
I'm clucking like an ugly duckling!

In the end
I look upon the layers of reality
And I see more than you
Because I am greater than God

God bends his knee at my feet

I AM IMMORTAL
I AM PROMISED

AND I AM ALL CONSUMING

My disdain for this stupid world is known
Travesty after travesty
We never learn
From the pages of the past

I spit on this dumb world
Full of dumb people
Doing dumb things
With dumb motives

And who are you?

WHO ARE YOU?

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-Fin-

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Caren Krutsinger May 18, 2018 at 8:29 PM You have effectively captured the heartbeat of this world. Good show! The immediacy, and warnings are compellingly presented. A terrific write!