Thursday, September 29, 2011

Just some thoughts

These are some thoughts I jotted down last night on my way home.  The sun had just set and twilight was darkening into night.  I'm not sure if this is prose or a poem yet...

Crossing the street, I felt the warm caress of exhaust as a car passed behind me and I felt loved and at home.  Then I smelled the warmth - choking, cancerous.  I knew it was death, but I craved it.  I am at peace in the swirling heat that I know will kill me someday.  I can not stop it - and I find that helplessly erotic.  Mmmm... the hairs stand at attention along my spine.  My arms pump full of blood, no - of life - life that drips... drips... drips from my ears.  As I continue I pass trees with browning leaves.  All that I sense is death.  Dark and looming death that coos like a young mother to a colic-stricken child.  Ssshhhh... hush now... As the warm draft passes, the cold grips my arm and I freeze. 

-R.K.M.

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