Tempered In the Rage

There are no gentle movements
into a calm goodnight


there is a rage 
of intemperance
in the stupidity
of attempting to mark, 
as to be in memory


there is no remembrance


as one I arrived bare
maggots my butlers,
devouring each and every
shedding,
eventually 
being their main 
course


and a life in circles moves


a thousand years
shall pass in the spinifex,
the dust shall blow
across the page 
of my existence


scratching out all 
I ever was


generations vortex from the future,
and stretch through to brush my mind


A memory before their time
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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