sady

———

soot-tipped fingers bless all that is malleable

from sap, an attentive rigidity is procured aplenty

from clay, histories return to motion

from batter, pleasure and nuance entrance the mouths of many

from infant impressionability, self-seated ardor which once was shunned

finds

sanctuary.

..

of his word, moral malaise vanishes beneath ignorance; his chrysalis

of his form, its pallor distends on gluttonous vice; his syphilis

of his inflictions, blooming at once at the rigid decree

of the knobby digits assuming birthgiver

in Noah's peril, those scars fade for none to see

accrued depravities, hidden by tidebearer

a damning oblivion his tainted gift mandated

the Ark, the people's haven

petals strewn beneath the waters below, Noah's ardor unsated

———

a seed laid into unrest

to varnish your cuirass,

dissect and later 'primand

this vitreous salve, quicksand

-

of course, i've grown to detest

a morrow's gleam: your arrest

in ne'erending night, i unman

my nat'ral barb to uphold

your dying will; cajoled

— — — — —

of the innumerable i have led,

your frail envy was not an unseen mast.

what you lack, what was detracted- its stead

i delight in, ne’er taxing and steadfast.

silence, child, your rampant presumptions name

confusions, sycophancy, and distrust.

my extremities seek no more; their claim

‘cross thy pallor a truly aimless rust.

marble cascades to copper. you’re enthused

in donning our misanthropy, such that-

against fledgling’s prohibitions, bemused

“salem’s” knuckles percuss, salvo of gat

the pyre’s barren now; choked on tempered ire.

you, no longer true — i, no longer “sire.”

would yall believe me if i said i made this bc of a papyrus cosplayer online who. i felt ignored me in place of others despite taking it upon himself to take charge of me because he was there to see me have horrid stuff happen to me. now when i told him of the effect that Big Bad Thing had on me he unfriended me and actually sent it to someone else he knew for "advice" :) the advice being a backhanded "just go get professional help." laughs in poor