Entropy
Posted 28/02/24
Not merely falling into entropy but doggedly chasing it to its inexorable conclusion, desperate to seek its end, yet powerless to halt its execution. Running headlong into the barriers erected to protect the innocent and decimating all of them to a one but knowing that their destruction was never the point, nor will it soothe the dull ache within. The yawning gap left within your soul at their departure.
You try to console yourself that eternity isn't as long as you once imagined but, with the horizon sinking deep into the distance, you doubt your own peace. Could such a thing truly be unending? No, better not to think about it. Let the people who think it's finite live with their delusion for fear of morale loss.
Sever the injury and allow it to drain. Languish in spawning pools of despair before brandishing that particular edge yet when action is called, pierce without mercy. Divine meaning to placate the masses with soporific smiles and misdirection, leading to the inevitability of the mortality of morality. Let it all simply fade into the empty nothingness of time, the void within us all that sucks forth hope as if a hose were siphoning galaxies into a black hole.
No fear, you say. None that would grip a heart and take root within one's chest. No, these fears are primordial, savage. Curdling the blood before it has a chance to form, it simply takes you whole, forces seizures within and strangles the rest of you to just a hair beyond life. Tossing aside your lifeless corpse, it moves on, relentlessly seeking those sparks it may extinguish. And you allow it. How could one but blame you for this? Why would one forgive you?