The Sun Beyond The Horizon

The aspects of the man I am writing about has alot of different characteristics that I have taken from a few different places. Essentially, he is a corporate, political and spiritual monster, because it is who he is and what he has to be. We are all this

Falling as if on a pink parachute

He slips past horizon’s limits

Leaving us in sweet gentle twilight

Where we can appreciate what is close

To us, we deem it relevant.
 

He is a striking man

Wild eyes that hurt upon contact

Well dressed, well groomed, handsome

A man with such good form

That most find it unsettling

A man who self-contrives

He hides beyond the horizon
 

Don’t go after him

For he is his father’s sun

After all

His sunny exterior will spin

What lies within
 

Walk closer and see fists clenched

Fast approach to see his potent posture

Your contemplation renders

The horrible transformation

Of a bonafide Jekyll to Hyde
 

For too long he has been withheld of heaven

To go ablaze

Become crazed

For too long he has lived in the abyss of hell

Where he was raised

To seek and raze.

If the holocaust was the offense

And Hiroshima was the warning

Then he is more ghastly than a thousand atomic bombs

Face him and auto combust

Crumble away

Return to dust

His followers seek knowledge

They will know nova

Armageddon

Reviews

[Marie Anzalone]

I have been fascinated by the harbinger of Armageddon, and its various depictions. Your words remind me of Yeats' beast slouching its way to wards Bethlehem, and of McCarthy's warning that "you cannot stop wht's coming" in "No Country for Old Men." Men, without pity, compassion- whose world revolves around manipulation and suspicion. The economy of never enough of anything to go around, especially love. Chilling, and increasinly plausible as a potential future. The kind I do not want to live in.

[Clint Hale]

"For too long he has been withheld of heaven"

To me that sums up the entire idea you have here (though, I am certainly glad you have more lines than just that one). I know many people who are like this, or perhaps I can see the potential for them to be this man.

I really like this. From what I've read on this site very few works really strike me as having a lot of thought behind them. Your's, sir, absolutely did.


Clint