The Vulture
Something is pecking out the important parts.
There's a bird in my brain
Peck, peck, pecking
At my sanity.
My humanity.
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It's a vulture
That's tearing through sinew,
Scratching across bone
To find delicious morsels of morality.
.
It eats them whole.
Swallows them in chunks.
And takes away the few scraps
Of conviction left in my thoughts.
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I am a carcass.
.
These pieces have been picked over,
Plucked, ravaged, and devoured.
I shouldn't have stopped moving forward.
Shouldn't have paused to peer at the past.
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I slipped in the quicksand,
Fell over against the dirt
Just to rest my cheek
On hallowed ground and sleep.
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I awoke to empty eye sockets
And blue eyes dangling
From the curved beak
Of an opportunist.
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Wow! So starkly grimly ghastly beautiful! Well done!
Ghastly! but brilliant!
Whoaaaa, I loved how dark and intense this was! Freaking amazing!
Well constructed, flows effortlessly. For want of a more appropriate adjective, I appreciated the efficient use of language. I'm just waiting for you to write something mediocre so I can feel good about my own writing again! :)
Love this!