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Caustic continuum

Collateral fears cognizance

Mistakes fill steps that could take lifetimes

At home in fields crows circling

Overcast autumn breeze

Pieces of me still left in the leaves

I wish the beauty you fought tooth and nail to embrace could glisten further than this

Reduce to base/fascistic failsafe

Effigy to a rock and hard place

Destiny of man or what archaeologists will debate a millennia from now?

Don’t get it twisted: you got the face of a methhead and the stride of a drunk, but you’re walking straighter than most

No culture no community no catalyst

I’m collateral and I’m terrified

With duct tape and shame past present future converge

Like some ever present judge

Irises like supernovas

Won’t even be a footnote

Gone in an instant, but leave behind some sorta grand wreckage

No guarantees in healing, but to defy oblivion in pursuit of the absurd notion of something beyond the circumstances that arbitrate

Headlights rapidly approach on unnamed dirt roads, illuminate ends i must face

If not for myself, then for you and I to grasp a warmth untainted one last time

If it means anything at all

With duct tape and shame doomed youth press on