slowly melt us down

child you don't know who you are open your eyes wide step onto the earth aspinning into your view the fiery dawn a warrior blood crazed and draped of golden red skin and a painted face sweating silver clouds. step into the earth, child, it is for you. awake from your deep resting and see the twitching butterfly laying on the boiling asphalt with only one vibrant metallic turquoise wing as the infinite methods of death. child you are in pieces, come down to the clear waters running through the heart of the city choked with diamond detritus of your people's intoxicated reality, see the oiled duck whose top bill has rotted off, her tongue exposed and scabbed, unable to catch its nourishment as the long starvation that will overcome you on some quiet night as you sleep. child you are humbly eternal, as the rusted train rattles heavy and violent on the bridge above you see the headless corpse of a stray dog decompose and confetti the acidic air around you with flies bestomached of your infinity. child your fabric is the weak spiderweb of a rogue, disheveled galaxy, see the man pierced upon a wooden cross begging for mercy, see the man walking away from his bodhi tree meditation, limping towards the brothels, in them feel your fear of the winds prowling about the cowered lands, carrying with them the blackened skies of your days. oh child! feel us forgetting your existence after you ran naked and boldly from the city for several days into wilderness. could you hear us, child, hear us trying to keep our shit together, trying to vanquish the thought of you lying on your back as just another poisoned cockroach in the cooling desert sand, your tired eyelids slowly closing out the universe once fireworked dazzling and powerfully streaking now silently paling embers into the ash snowflake drifting down upon your spilt bones and blood