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Echoes in an Hourglass

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dry rosemary and regret
a shrine to what we swore
    
             memories a sieve
    echoes in an hourglass
    
    we bury what we are
    
    then dig up ghosts
    and call them holy
    

the beast stumbles
over its own shadow

                        cracked
     burdened by a truth
     no knife can flay
      

dining at bountiful tables


exquisite place settings                                    for the selves
              we’ve damned

                          each sip a pact
       each laugh a shard of glass
swallowed to prove we’re whole


            decadence unspoilt
                 not in subtleties

 

                a   r e q u i e m . .

 

       hummed by bureaucrats
       a tax levied on the soul

        planted in boneyards
        where hope has gone to die
        

    decay blooms in headlines
                ink staining fingers
               as we turn the page
          
                Normalcy the alibi
           
                             of a world
           learning to look away


What’s left when honour
crumbles into dust

        when trauma cries
        and has outlived our fables . ?


        Perhaps the mirror cracks
        and in its jagged breath

        meets the orphaned self
        stripped of metaphor
        

                       teeth bare
        howling at the wind


                  Who's carved
                  these scars so deep


                  that the Pain

        Became my Bones . ?

        

© mingoáo

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Newpanther says:

endless "snaps" on this piece..

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