Unnoticed

The culmination of failure and resignation to one final choice.

Evolution complete:

I am faceless.

That, once recognizable,

Is disfigured and ugly;

And exudes the smell

Of gangrenous life.

Eyes of strangers, friends,

Horrified by my transformation,

Look beyond, toward safety.

My stare will consume them,

And labor them,

Into my hollow.

 It is my soul,

Pure and discontent,

That cries for emancipation

And deliverance.

It is the cyclones

Of failures echoing,

Again and again,

Abrading my use,

Paring my value.

The dust in my palms,

Is the former me;

And even the breaths

Of God

Cannot reconstitute

This undead.

I resign,

To the solitary

Choice

That remains:

To free the soul

From its heinous captor;

To bait tranquility

With selfless mercy

Until the final drop

Dries unnoticed.

Reviews

[emmajoy]

Oh my, so tragic, so dark, so everything .. yet, beautifully constructed work.

'My stare will consume them, ~ And labor them, ~ Into my hollow.' .. .. that's like sucking them into you .. absorption gone crazy.

[Nobody.]

Sad and vivid. Well written. The dark images really tore into me. Well done!
Cheers!
R.G.