u/Jaccowest

Let me be.
At peace.
Not prey to the hunter
armed with
stopwatch and ledger.

Whatever life once was
has been traded for noise,
reincarnated as hunger,
as engines,
as teeth.

The hounds of hurry
snap at my heels,
foam-flecked with ambition.

A fruitless chase
through glass towers
and glowing screens,
a duel to the death
where the gravestones read,
regret.

Leave me.
Unhounded.
Unmeasured.
Unprofitable.

Let me lie in the quiet,
where tomorrow cannot hunt,
yesterday cannot stalk
and today has no jaw.

Allow me
not to conquer,
not to climb,
please let me exist.

The ache
of your absence.
A kind
of death.
Hope deflated.
Dreams scattered.
Like rubbish.
The world
in tatters.
The sun is coal,
the moon just rocks,
no flowers bloom.
No sunrise.
No dusk.

I stay awake
Holding time
captive.
In darkness.
a parallel life
unfurls-
nothing is real,
only potential.
Hope flashes-
ethereal, glossy,
breaking water,
silver underbelly showing-
shining.
Ripples linger-
pale echoes,
swallowed,
like mist,
before the raging sun.