---

watch the light leave the body

through this spreading wound.

the night is with us now,

in us now.

all future mornings rise to find

our faces turned away

and unknowing.

our dead lie unburied.

our dead lie unmourned and envied.

we picked at the flesh of reason

and welcomed absurdity,

embraced fantasy and greed

and dulled our senses.

as the fires burned away

we paid no mind.

when the fires burned our feet

we could only beg;

to remain royal

in a kingdom of less

and less

and less

with each passing day.