It's hard to realize you're living through historical events as they happen. Everything in the here and now seems so incremental and yet it can all feel so inevitable. As we watch the society we live in wrestle and struggle with powerful issues sometimes it is easy to feel helpless in that storm. We've lost so many and so much that progress can sometimes seem impossible. It feels as though for every inch of new ground we claim the force of entropy tries to strip an entire mile away from us.
In the end our sanity and faith are price we pay.
Dead End
Sirens in the distance
Building up already burning bridges
Covered in ash down to the knees
We do our mourning and we move our feet
Marching endlessly
I might as well just choose a grave
This quiet Earth yet undisturbed
I guess I'll etch a name
These pillars shaking
Can you feel the worms beneath
Such insidious workings
The inevitable end of the machine
And a falling from such Icaran heights
Swallowed in the fire of the sun
The wind and force of thunderbolts
Summer already come and gone
Spinning endlessly
Where entropy has no sway
This aching heart
I guess we're up in flames
Never been ready for sacrifice
We spend our days to drink our nights
Covered in cuts up to the knees
From night to morning we don't sleep
I'm as alive as you choose for me to be
Slaughter those who do not comply
Last sight was the glint of a copper shield
Though there's no reason why
Bending endlessly
Generally I genuflect gracelessly
This talking heart servile
Still wants to beat rebelliously
The screaming coming out of the West
Guard close against the Winter wind
A beacon glows in the distance
Built beneath this monolith of regret
A dead end of my own design
Scrambling here in this dust
To convince you to stay behind
That I could be more than meaningless
Foundational falsehoods now combine
To steal a line my bloodline was a fault line
We're all on borrowed time
Rushing toward the death of heat
Cautioned endlessly
Licked by the fire but never freed
I'm no good at empires
We do our mourning and move our feet
( Image Source: Jondave Libiran https://www.instagram.com/ar.davelibiran/ )
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