Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: desuetude

  • Solace In Desuetude (Poem)

    I walk on crumbling pavement in derelict streets

    To gaze upon abandoned buildings with boarded doors

    And dusty signs that advertise sorrow for closure.

    I travel to the overgrown fields

    To visit wakes of vultures with avid mien

    And clamorous geese that fly overhead to nowhere.

    The lowering skies and threatening clouds provide refuge

    For a journeyer such as I, hooded in gray and solitary.

    When all ground is unsteady and every kindness a threat,

    I take comfort in the evidence of decay.

    With knowledge of such dark glory, can misery abide?

  • Harbinger (Poem)

    I have fallen into dereliction,

    Such decay heralding future loss.

    Something is approaching over the horizon.

    I can hear its soft skeletal hoof beats

    Clattering clickety clack, clickety clack.

    The dread beast approaches.

    I laugh in welcome and toss it my heart,

    A worthless organ but still a sacrificial deed.