Steam billows

Steam billows

The air is humid
Standing there
In s quivering stillness
Mechanical quality images
Flash in slow motion
Tethering yesterdays and tomorrows
The mooring lines drifting in a haze
Unchanged inside
The beating of a simple heart
Sounding like the wings of bird
Fluttering against the bars of this cage
Rain drops leave patterns in the dust
An atavistic world
Fluttering like dragonflies
In a silvery moonlight
Waiting on the edge of hope

Mannequins competing
In a sadist person context
Frozen in a melancholy bliss
Pontification that of this lesson
Lives littered by betrayal
Superficial damage burning deep
Contours of the toxic
Breathed in like oxygen
Reptilian mannerism of a faked smile
Promoted in this culture of deniability
Viral the damaged
The cost of a paid in full pessimist
Stoic laughter of self pity
Lugubrious in its cheerful sound

Fearing the end
is so much better
than fearing living