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Nihilistic Nomad

  -inspired by a homeless man living in woods and running from
     heartache who had a number of actual snake stories:
  
If the heart was a nihilistic nomad
how it would wander to places unknown
how it would revert away from shelter
and safety and zealously beg to be shown
a prosaic hibernation in which to lie low
away from the rigid and undeviating rigamarole
of endless insolvent attempts to meet halfway
all of its predicaments carried along the way
it would wait for nightfall to enter a din
reborn into darkness and away from sin
laying in trenches where snakes crawl
midway between a merge and a dubious fall
little by little and in a bombastic tone it would
metaphorically metastasize emitting a drone
from a tree-lined mezzanine would fate observe
all that had sunk into a collapsed rotting reserve
littered with dregs that immemorial time forgot
beneath a pitch-dark winter cloistered and shot
a pigeon-holed degeneracy to germinate slow
in leading to a needful distillation of the soul
defiant with the basest of such strategistic bent
running away would be a straight-armed attempt
away from a stumbling block of mechanistic hum
would the heart retreat so raw-boned and numb
ravened away from a rear-ward effulgence
it would only fathom its dreamed-up indulgence
fed by a fountain of marginal understanding
drowning its beating aortic flow in meandering
in odious vaguery would the river be dammed
and only with the utmost tenacity be jammed
with hubris and degraded regrets so unmanned
its catalyst would lead to a cesspool of demand...
Written by PoetsRevenge
Published | Edited 6th Aug 2016
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