Pillars of the Void

Hey you

Yeah you

Why are you looking at me like that?

Are you judging me?

What are you thinking?

Are you lost?

It doesn’t make any sense

I don’t get it

Why are you so cold?

Why are you so somber?

So

Cold

Isn’t it bad enough that we are nothing more than momentary speckles in an endless universe?

Isn’t it bad enough that one day you are going to rot…literally?

Your brain will turn to mush and your insides will collapse

The fluids will leak out of your body as if to escape the prison vessels of the physical form

Your tongue will swell and turn purple…maybe green…or chartreuse

Maggots and worms will fill their stomachs with the flesh of your past

The sky will turn violet and burst into flames

The oceans will have no place in the pits of hell and reach their hands up to the sky

His majesty will no longer wander through the crowds of broken dreams and ice-cold hatred

She forgot how to use her tongue so instead she takes her teeth out of her mouth and draws an illusion into the void

Free of the void

Sick of the void

Live in the void

They didn’t think she was enough so they threw her in the crevices of their broken souls where no creature lurks

You know the way the trees whisper to each other on a cold autumns day?

Or the way the snow cries out when we crush their children under our soles

My death is not the answer nor is it the conclusion but perhaps the question

I can’t see my hands when the lions cover the sun and the moon with the shadows of their manes

I can’t feel your breath when you strangle yourself with the chords of undying pleasure

Do you know how much your heart will cost when there are no more tears to feed the sharks of wrath?

Well do you?

I didn’t think so

You have no control

So again I ask you; why are you looking at me like that?

Reviews

[Tony Jordan]

I felt a swift change of narrative style - perhaps it was switch of POV (Forgive my non technical style of critique - I know nothing) - here;
"His majesty will no longer wander through the crowds of broken dreams and ice-cold hatred

She forgot how to use her tongue so instead she takes her teeth out of her mouth and draws an illusion into the void..."

The title is weak, in light of the vehemence but the decomposition of the body is nicely visualised.

[Destiny_Brown]

yeah i felt the same way about the title. That's honestly the hardest part for me. Thanks for feedback!