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Your Dead Horizon

Cold cloak chills
my aged bones it
belies
those crimson eyes
those smoldering orbs
those smoking windows
of despair

and yet
I draw closer
I capitulate
I accede
in the knowing
of what is
and what was
and what will
never be

with one touch I’m
asphyxiated
emasculated
entombed

my ashes
barely glancing
your frozen ground
your dead horizon
your nuclear dust
before they are
pulverized
obliterated
behind the echo
of your
terrifying laugh.


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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 1/10/2021 11:51:00 PM

I loved The Woman in Black....The plot, set in early 20th-century England, follows a young recently widowed lawyer who travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorising the locals....(love that type of spectre/woman lol....); and of course in her life, the loss of a child through misfortune. You have encapsulated the feelings/atmosphere well. Good video choice. Your mother? Or someone you know? Perhaps you are the protagonist. I agree with Panagiota's comments below.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 1/11/2021 12:43:00 AM

Of course, if we are all blown to smithereens by a nuclear war, all our poems and stories are burnt to crisps, which the new inhabitants will use as victory war paint or eat ...;) End the 'review' with an easily digestible and flavorsome comment for the herd. x