Untransmissive isolation
Static —
Whispers through the airwaves
Secrets —
That can never be known
My hands are tired
My body is weak
My smile no longer remembers —
How to rise
Yet, I hold it,
Still —
In the riven quiet
Of the fathomless dark
Calmly floundering —
In my perpetual descent
— The unsteady meter —
Of my heart —
Striking the bruised recesses
Retained within my remodeled cage
— Calloused seams —
Etch my senescent pelt —
Intersect the treads of my shadow —
Score the neural contours of my memory —
— A cavernous keep —
My eyes
Swirl with visions
Sights
I cannot bear to see
Voices
Invade my mind
Words
I did not speak
Hallucinatory derisions
Sounding
On my drums
Untransmissive Isolation
Keep me away —
From everyone
As I maintain my descension
Tartarus’ obsidian stream
I’m confined to holding on
To the beating in my chest
Its arrhythmic thrum is cracking my ribs
Breaking me apart
Wicking across the pages
My bloody nib —
My exsanguinated heart.