Asphyxiant Blessing

A corpse lands in a dry river

Dull impact on the bank

Bloated and wet

Ruptured with fragmented bone

It putrefies in the sun

Burning skin and bleaching bone

Is this all that there is?

Has it always been empty?

Looking over his body as the water returns

In the end just a bit of flesh and bone

How does a lateral being intercept a longitudinal force?

The culmination of a life, a vessel of unending strife

Fractals in the blank

Geometric void

Chemicals stop reacting

Neurons cease to fire

Jubilant path of denial

A vexing cacophony in a chorus of ruin

Towers stretch higher in the dark

Yawning over endless fields of stars