u/BloodySpaghetti

Pure and undying devotion to that instinctual hatred
Beating violent and blind within the human heart
Has led me at last to this fabled domain
One I sought for decades in ruinous landscapes
Carved open by these self-destructive hands

A land ruled by an everlasting silence,
Air thick as soot, left in firestorm’s wake,
Where no light dares linger
And every trace of life was forced back into the earth

Yet now I wake in a cold sweat,
Trapped beneath the same chloroform dawn,
Loathing the ashen taste of fulfillment
This long pursuit has left in my mouth

Because I am stranded here—
Adrift on a barren rock in the endless void,
With no voice to answer mine,
No witness left
To carry this memory
Nor a friend
To usher my end