See, Listen
I prey on your principles, with a thick claw stabbing through the bone,
Into the soft recesses below the layers of hardened counterfeit
I feast on your innards before you know I exist,
And when the emptiness hits,
Your judgement does hiss
I cross the coals with chilled alertness,
Fire burning into the soles I have licked
They clobber onto me till I see stars
And I wait till their fiery suns die in their pique of agony
I see you for who you are, bare skeleton,
With no more eyes to see,
And no more ears to hear
I see you for what you were always destined to be—
Powdered bones in the wasteland of Forgotten
And as your returned dust does blow through hot, whimpering winds
I take your condemnatory eyes,
And your crooked ears,
And I profess loudly to the nether land,
“No soul shall rest upon here!”
Copyright © Laura Breidenthal | Year Posted 2016
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