intertwined

Briefly, let me fizzle out. Let us die as twin flames

Eternity, amiss, an endless embrace

The boundaries blur as our promise interlocks—

—Splat.

Oops. Pulp gouged; slopped dead on the floor,

Poured out and hollowed into naught but marrow,

Halt when it’s coreless; like spiderwebbed glass

Half of one is still less than half.

You’re washed in gray, we’re both scrubbed clean. I sit on

the tumbling sandhills, dusted up into lapins

Masseter, temporalis. Open wide, you say

And we both know it’s Apathy that swallows.

Have you rung a death knell that rings without noise?

At the edge of my eyes, your countenance depletes

A quasar that consumes, your cell’s a halo

That leaves behind this message:

Emptiness consumes,

Depravity remains,

And regrets do not look back.

~ OCT 2024