Utter Silence
So quiet
It makes noise
A ringing static
You can hear
Fizz through the air
Tickling your eardrums
Giving you that feeling
That something is missing
Cancer
Something so statuesque in the form
Beauty beyond time
Beauty in essence
Yet something filthies the frame
Like a tea-stained letter
Tainted
Bones are gray and yellow where white should be
Skin lost for smoothness
Made rough and dirty
By the times
Everything poisoned and dulled
Dead or dying.
Food and water are virtually useless
Unless cancer is the goal
An undeniable destination
Regardless.
Even the sun
Our greatest life source
Causes cancer.
Even the sun
Has cancer.
It is to expand and grow
Swallow itself and everything else
Whole
Sad world
Where things are no longer allowed their full beauty
11/5/2021
With ears underwater
The world is white noise
I hear the thump of my heart
A faint, constant woosh
Echoed breathing
The sounds of living
Have you ever heard a
Beep-beep-beep?
Parallel to the pulse
A mechanical beating
As if I am just the illusion of human
Some device
Unknown to me
Tick tick ticking away