Saturday, August 16, 2025

Wild wild west

 Wake up, bright lights

The blinding welcome

The wholesome journey 

New day, new path, start, run

But you are on a gurney

The bullets whistle, sizzle

The moment, gone, so brittle

The mud, the dirt, the iron

Gunpowder dulling senses

Cursing all for being born

The bloody mess, no answers 

Crawl out of the dirt

Squeeze through the dust

Where trees with fire flirt

Where black hole rusts

It spits led, fire, end

But crawl, but fight you must

The fireball in waiting. Stand!

And as the force erupts

And as your limbs go numb

The time just stops

And death so shaken, dumb

It picks up your pieces

In a final tight embrace

No medals, just pure stillness 

When darkness we are forced to face…

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