Angelo

Ouroboros

you

    drag yourself

             and crawl

 

         along these floors

 

your insides painting

            a horrid image

                   on the white marble

 

wrathful red lies; the only paint

      you have at hand

 

                          using your pain

                         as paint and supplies

 

                     a place you call home

                      a place you should rest in

                   being the canvas of your own destruction

 

this massacre of you

will leave you hollow

and begging something

                             anything

                                 to fill its void



                             we sacrifice ourselves

                       for the sake of creation

               but 



                     what happens when you

                 run out of you?

 

beaten by rage

fueled only by sorrow

you pray

 for some kind of salvation

               how would you ever be saved

                   by a fate you wrote yourself?

 

You shout; this is not art! This is suffering!

begging the darkness to give you

reasons to keep searching for light

 

you;

a burning candle

wax melting down

 

hands still threading

through knotted string

 

tying, braiding

weaving

this life of yours

which you carry like a burden

 

láttu lífið syngja

okkur til dauða á ný

og látum þennan snák

éta sig á ný

 

An eternal cycle

of creation and destruction

the beginning of you.