Telomeric Erosion

With catatonic eyes

And impetuous spirit

We gaze starward

While the wolves of old

Ravage our homesteads

While quicksand devours

Our steadfast stance

Legs of flesh strain to hold aloft

The ill conceived colossus

Chiselled so haphazardly from heroes and idols

Bones crack and buckle

Beneath the crushing weight

Of a yokesworth ambitions piled high

I run

With brittle fingers I claw for the horizon

Untiring death follow

The earth cracks beneath my fumbling gait

Our gazes meet as bodies wither

Indifference is my only courtesy

This death is final

For I am all

How I lament and revel

Within the romance of my decay

As ideals and endeavors become as ashes

Swept aloft in the faltering winds

Dreams of the stars

And intoxicating immortality

Draped like a veil so threadbare

Obscuring a death we share

Beneath this distant sky

In the twilight of our time

The fading light and dulcet tones

As the shadows grow long

And the stars dim

All that was made is unmade

All that was discovered is swept in to obscurity

All that I have been falls from recollection

And all that is ceases to be