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Beneath Snow & Soil

A meandering poem

By Silver DauxPublished 10 months ago • 1 min read
Beneath Snow & Soil
Photo by Hide Obara on Unsplash

Cathedral eyes haunt my dreams

Spilling red light through the gaps

Wounding the structural beams

Already splintered by this weight,

This endless stellar cloud of change.

Exhaustion ripples inside of me like

Some distant cousin of old decay.

The termites are cozy inside my soul.

.

Maybe Van Gogh wasn't mad when he

Took the knife into his hands just...

Overstimulated by the building decay,

The dust of his soul piling at his feet.

Maybe he wanted the sound to stop

And maybe there was no snow for him

To tunnel beneath and hide away

From all those sounds of internal rot.

.

Fear follows the summer heat.

Patience burns and broils in August.

Winter aches in the bones of fools,

Yet blossoms like the stars at night

In the minds of the poets who crave

Some respite from the munching ants

Peeling them apart strip by strip.

Bury me like the wildflower then.

Give me a moment of bleak silence.

Freeze me beneath the soil.

nature poetryFree VerseStream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Silver Daux

Writer of the dark! Think of it like flipping rocks, the weird little stories underneath are my jam and jelly. Jam and butter? Just jam. Absolutely no use of AI in any of my works :)

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    Written by Silver Daux