Hereditas: Onus et Donum
Inheritance: Burden and Gift | Part II of Venae Fractae Fati
The gift of life.
The burden of living.
What do the ancestors provide—
Continuance? Comfort? Conformity?
Many have spoken of nature and nurture—
but what of the tangle between?
This is the second piece in a brief trilogy—
the inner voice, caught in those vines.
A gift in blood.
Inheritance.
Echoes as guides.
Instinct.
Marrow—cracked past reinforces mine.
Evolution.
Past remedies ease new trauma.
Adaptation.
Yet, here I stand.
Isolation.
Wanting more.
Ambition.
Wondering what and how.
Confusion.
Striving onward.
Determination.
Finding mine.
Creation.
Passing down.
Inheritance.
What is more—
the gift we receive,
or the one we give?
Each wrapped in inheritance.
Each blurred by ambiguity.
If you missed Part I, find it here: Sanguis ex Cruore
Part III: Via Negata will follow soon.
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Good Fortune to You,
—Your Madman
About the Creator
Tales from a Madman
.. the figure in question had out-Heroded Herod, and gone beyond the bounds of even the Prince's indefinite decorum.
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
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