Poem: The Pace of Small Eternities Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

The Pace of Small Eternities

Written by: Alan Lisanti (2015)

Website:  Misanthropic Poetry

The hands turn

Despite resistance

Flooding components

Gears soaked in molasses

Golden sheen of atrophy

Like honey fresh from

Thriving hives

The perpetual circle

Will still complete

As time is determined

To stay the course

Throughout the suffering

You as the slave

To incremental institutions

Helpless in it's grip

And lured into it's

Falsified mercy

That looming eye

Upon the wall

Like silent commanding general

Rules the chaos of the world

Castrates it's reckless nature

And you only chase your tail

And stare at the culprit

And plead in silence

To speed it up

Or slow it back down

Or end it

A bargain or a

Sacrifice for every wretched minute

Give it up to get it back

Or give it all to live it

This redundant

Torture kills with

The subtlest precision

How many days

Doused in molasses

Before it claims

Its latest victim

The remnants of

Atrocity live on

Once I am taken

There upon the wall

Remains the killer

Unmistaken