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Ode to What Is

Before we flew 

we broke the code

and thus into

the unknown rode

on gossamer wings,

such lovely things

we saw along the way.

Stardust Faeries, 

goo goo dolls,

buffalo swarms

Martian spitballs!

We ne’er did stop

to smell the toads

or wonder at 

pink nematodes,

too focused on 

the unseen treasure.

We watched it pass

without a measure 

of regret.

Laughing, crying,

we left the dying 

to float away,

forgot to say,

“Farewell, so sorry!”

Nothing learned, 

everything lost,

no one dared to

count the cost

of reckless life.

No good could come

of human mis-living

Existence can be 

so unforgiving.

We wrote the book

of our own demise

with swords dipped in 

 the blood of the wise.

Click.

Suicide mode on,

gone the old ideal,

forgetting all that

we knew as

beautiful and real.

We fell so quickly,

our wings how they flamed,

more vicious and base

as all others we blamed. 

Into the barren 

wasteland we strode,

hungry, thirsty as

the truth of it flowed

over our souls like

a river of fire,

gone the desire

for more.

                                                                         Ashes to ashes,

the mountains to dust,

cities to rubble,

progress to rust. 

We fell to our knees

at the edge of the pool-

a silvery lake

so welcoming, cool.

“You can only drink,”

she said, melancholy,

“if you face the reflection

that shows you the folly

of its path.”

We thought it would be easy

and clamored for the drink,

until the monstrous truth 

dragged us to the brink 

of stark reality.

Delusion,

Confusion,

Anger,

Sin!

Tracing hideous scars

upon our skin. 

Wailing, screaming and 

gnashing of teeth

as most descended

to their graves beneath.

All but a few

had failed the test,

and

whispered a prayer

to forgive the rest.

Then drinking our fill, 

 but not one drop more,

we fell upon the ashen shore

as a gentle rain echoed happily,

the distant strains of a prophecy…..

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