Saturday, 23 November 2019

Water is Truth -

to drink and to drown in.
We are the only creatures
to know and deny the desiccating truth
that we are Death,
heart-wizened, face-painted
bedizened destroyers.

(Nor is truth a reversible raincoat.)

2 comments:

  1. BruceNovember 23, 2019

    Very fine, Se~nor. If only destruction wasn't an aphrodisiac for us.

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  2. WoflNovember 24, 2019

    ...or an addictive, energising, demoralising behaviour, like gambling - but much, much worse.

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