Thursday, January 23, 2020

Reclusive Tendencies


The boketto begins, no one is to blame.
Your meraki has fallen from your work.
You’ve traveled in silence to keep from
screaming, this fanaa eats away like cancer. 
You’ve never reached out for a hand or any smile,  yet
your frustration glares back in gruesome 
hollowness. Life’s become something more than
you’ve bargained for, you’ve squandered away all
your hopes, and your last dream, vacated by grief.
Once an oriflamme of misery now the only
embrace of comfort is sunshine. This adoxography 
placates your need to be heard or to be accepted. Still, 
this Orphic is all you desire, you’re seldom
enthusiastic about some fancy mention of trivial 
wares, for your eudaimonia cannot be bought or 
secured by some shallow penchant. This genie 
won’t return her gift; one must first recognize 
one’s despair to begin to love and what keeps you
willfully alive. Death owes no promise to you, 
but living in this imperishable hope of retrieving 
lost legitimacy is all that is required of this loathsome 
penance. You’ve lengthened your mind to vast 
catharsis, and worrying about death only shortened 
your life. 

- John Hardesty 

©️1/23/2020

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Pseudepigrapha

  As the bell tolled, resounding, it also told,  of the death of the fallen Hero.