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Burden / Carcass / Light

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I carry the weight of a self

That keeps multiplying

A burden bearing its own echo.

Where the remnants fall,

Circles of hunger gather.

Where the body of a moment lies,

The sky darkens with wings.

Vultures of memory,

Vultures of culture

Picking the bones

Of what we tried to build.

Shadows dressed in brightness,

Leading blind hands into mirrors.

Light wearing the mask of light,

Darkness painted in white

A spectrum of deception

Softening at the edges.

I chase the dissolving horizon,

Sunsets slipping down the spine

Of an endless boulevard

Always almost reaching,

Always almost gone.