Shattering Descent: A Stream of Consciousness Collaboration

 

Art by @scorpioblxck

Shattering Descent

Air raid lullabies

Peal through black concrete imprisonment 

Bringing forth hanged body bags 

Framed in barbed wire

Swaying like dancing scarecrows 

Above the exhumed husks

Of the four pale horses

Puddling in rising gray mud 

Lumps of gyrating fleshy dreams

Flooding inverted hourglass 

Pulled in and chased 

Naked and wounded

Gallows-dangling feet bleeding down

Titled, inverted, nonsensical streets of broken scissors

And sticky, wet ribbons of used gauze 

Unfolds forth the lonely descent

Coloreless, pockmarked with suctioned voids

Covering the lightless Earth

The patterned lies weave in and out

Blazing emptiness,

Lost in annihilating catacombs 

Populated with wingless, defiled angels

Putrescent fluids flow down carrion hills 

Translucent veiny deities

Deliver crackling, rancid kisses

Brittle and incinerating 

To all flashing open sores 

Connecting all of our softening brains 

To the siphoned nonsense 

In the sorrowful cinderblock stars.

Lost in the shattered heart of it all

Frozen wind pushes my pulsing scar of a body

Down the monochromatic descent

Cradling forgotten depths,

A bloodied mockery of a sky

Ship masts, shadowed and flayed apart 

Squeal and pass above

Storming down sheets of numbing rain 

Butchered, sliced away from fly-swarming bloat

Suffocating the rotten remembrances 

The exact structures you still can’t bear to face

It all led me to this moment,

The only fraction of existence 

I was ever made to belong to. 

A caravan of hanged effigies 

Purple and dripping in shared viscous 

Marching me into the perpetual inferno

My self-made shotgun surgery 

Spilling my meaningless, diluted, and discolored blood

To cascade 

Down this shattering,

Fractured,

Abandoning 

Descent. 

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