EQUAL OPPORTUNITY DESTROYER

[b]An ardent mass licks

the edge beckoning  

dripping in pools

as black mirrors stain.

The scry to get free

tepid hands turn cold.



They race patience

slowly biting fringes

of the cold steel care

hours of that dust

over there, in the corner.

Wall and fiber gleam



as the dust gathers

a fist upon the light

closes slowly

and death belongs

only

by thy own hand.



Growls are heard

through the floor



as a light begs

for no more



rattled that this

cannot is a have not

cage.



Sustenance

is lingering

so it is forgone.

Light dims

curls within itself

folded among kisses



Bliss of death

witching hour

I find paradise

was found, bleak

midday Sun hovered

upon a Husk.



Eclipsed forever

as a light moved on.[b]