Impending doom reeks
Of a stench I cannot erase
Enswathed in condensed
Dithery smog
A chasm sighs open
As vast as the blue
In which I submit
To the pull of the tide
Without sound
Fade into ether
Exhale

Fathomless sentiment
Lingers in the trenches
Of a vacuous chest cavity
Devouring what remains
This freezing flame
Beneath skin,
Seething mercury
The wordless ache
Contained in the belly's pit.

how about a cheers?
A cheer to life.
A cheer to death.
A cheer to innocence.
A cheer to faults.
A cheer to mortality.
A cheer to damnation.
Though you might not think
some of these are worthy,
they all describe
some part of me.
So cheers to you.
you made it.
so did i.
Now lets breathe again,
and set off on our way
in a blur of hypothetical bliss
disappear into the wind
as we feel it gently tap our nose.
And then. we just.
go

this single earthly pulse
is lemon-slice palatable.
palms to earth, pulse to pulse.
the table is set and now we dine.