A Fraudulent Decay

Inspirations

For an otherwise

Uninspired world.

Stagnation mates with ennui,

Trigger offends frame.

Desperation reeks of fear

Grinning in contempt

Decay

We all do

Some late, some soon,

Some in peace,

And then there are the others,

Those that will eventually find themselves

Prematurely exhumed

Or dispatched as they’ve lived,

A fraudulent canvass is a canvass nonetheless

The Dire Prophecy

The foreshadow approaches,

When the pugilist loses will to fight

When the vampire thirsts for light,

The foreshadow encroaches

The premonition nears

When the activist ignores cause

When the seer can’t see so far

The premonition appears

The augur looms

When the loyalist loses allegiance

When the philosopher abandons reason

The augur brews

The dire prophecy closes in

When the atheist begins to care

When priests abandon prayer

The dire prophecy begins

Yet still, this doesn’t mean

Our world has to end

Terminus

From porticoes to parabolas

The distance-journeyed trails

A hewing sea of salted drives,

…The days of the shape-shift

Reaches portmanteau when

The facets of adventure’s experience

Culminates like a cross,

Splitting half-life

To half-death—

         Leaving a collated mixture-stirred

         Spreadable and clean

From balconies to arcing plots

There comes a molecule in time

Where the terminus has collected

All it can.

“Is that all?” said the observer standing by, “that can’t be all, can it now?”

To which the dreamer swiftly passed response, “ If one reaches terminus, then the journey has either ended or permanently stalled.”

{Sigh} does the stander-by, “But…”

Smiling slightly, the dreamer…”But…but of course, if the terminus has been achieved, the terminus has been achieved…but, if you are not satisfied with the journey’s conclusion, or feel like you’d desire some more, you…yes, you, any of you, can simply stand amidst your terminus…and challenge all of your calculations…by simply altering the schematics of that moment…and in its stead, build yourself a terminal...as so the journey shall never end.”