The Sunset of Our Existence

The Sunset of Our Existence – A Tale Alternate Realities…. Maybe

Art by Sharonlee

The Sunset of Our Existence – A Tale Alternate Realities…. Maybe

 in a year that has not happened

…in a world that does not exist

there still floats skeletal remnants

gliding lifelessly in purple mist….

but, ah I get ahead of myself

for the tale does not start here

let me go back to the beginning

tho' be warned…

you should tremble… in misery & fear…

for this is not a simple tale

or one for weakened hearts

…I hope you are all quite settled

for now my sad tale starts….

many many eons lost

in a time that was never found

there existed a fleeting netherplace

in the echoes of unheard sound…

I tell of a world so fantastical

it lived and died in one night

a night that existed in inbetweenity

and faded in a new dawns light….

the people were all poets

musicians and the like

inventors and epic storytellers

too profound for mortal sight…

they lived by the pen and the beauty of art

they lived to create what has not been seen

they knew the power of nihilistic delusion

and that 'life' was but a dream….

they created words too potent

for mediocre minds to comprehend

and composed scores of music

that played on with no end…

they fabricated fantastical concepts

with purposes vague and imprecise

deliberating and debating

all through the endless night…

but… and here my tale grows woeful

for jealously and greed abounds

outsiders became incensed

with the utopia these artisans had found…

 the cold hard claw of green-eyed greed

roiled & boiled & schemed & seethed

and set to end the endless night

and tho' the artificers of this tale

struggled to halt this plight

capitalistic cannibals sucked greedily

embezzling creativity's shining light

supplanting art with commercial banners

that played to mindless minds

until all that once existed

disappeared from time….

now, I know you cannot see me

but my empty chair still rocks

…my voice drifts on in eternity

and all else…. all else is lost….

sharonlee©

 

 For today’s Poetics at dVerse with Brian Miller behind the bar

 

 

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