Where There's More Than a Small Death
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It's more than being back on that beach
The 4 year old
wandering through the bodies
Courier of a time
Scanning the distal carcasses for a lost mother
White sands under soles
Bared skin mapping a life ahead by his sun
White hair
And the 9 man's muscled form
sighted in the 3 feet of this firm bellied precedent
The masterless beauty of that beach
begins to stain with a moribund sickening
metastasizing from the biological
to the ethereal gut of the child
Because Death is on the beach
Death has also been walking
Death has been scanning the same bodies
And now Death
is just 7 steps behind our 4 year old boy
And in the nucleus of the pairs fleshly stroll is:
extinction
annihilation
elimination
extermination
ruin
Cut from his life giving sun and mother
[but still holding his temporal duty]
The child is at risk
from the very furthest corner of his eye
where there's more than a small death
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Where There's More Than a Small Death ❚❚