I walk into the house I see him laying there. I hear preacher speak . We all say a prayer , soul is mine but his to keep. We all say it’s right, We all say fair. Seething in pain. You look at me. You Better believe it was him, Standing in the greenhouse with a scythe in his hand. In the other a piece paper listing everything that I’m not. Tethered to death and everything that comes with // Sorting through the sediment from cracks in ground \\\ Got caught Feeding the hounds benevolence coated in salt and peppermint…Holding my breathe: infinite. a second for every time you went and let me down. Burnt candles surround the table. Perched hands prayed for rain…You be Cain and I’ll be Able ()()() When we’re well past our Later days. The famine; the plague that pestilence brings___The panic the rage the manic; it’s him / you manage the pain you cradle the pig\ Patience inflamed in radiant spring, It’s like love, but it’s More like war. As Poison oak spills from his soul…The dope fiend the pills, The stillness of stone. The illness I know , The pillage of hope. The image Kills the ghost, The silence in the room heals the mirrors we atone. I could’ve sworn I saw you in the darkness last night, at the precipices of something real and nothing at all. I walk up to the edge and I fall. I lie and say I heard your call. I bend the loneliness, envelope the light . You say the only things that tell me I’m right /// The clouds in the distance are growing. It’s a mountain. It’s an ocean. My hounds approaching, It’s found. It’s hopeless, It’s harsh and it is broken, It’s boundless in its own sick imagined motive, Those who don’t fold to the law of the land. Can’t eat if when they feed you just keep biting the hand. believe me when I say that even the reason is dead I even the score. Wake up and look around and there’s blood on the floor run for the door comfort in something I have. I thought I saw the sky descend . The burnt lens too true to comprehend. The oozing skin of the honest land. The moving back of a new Leviathan… Death of the self mythology.