The ache of want, in which a lifeless, seemingly immortal entity we shall call 'Sentinel', is drawn to the beauty and rarity of life, only to be confronted by a contradiction; that those who possess this illusive quality seem to covert its inverse - that the pursuit of the living is often death. Our representative of the living, we shall call 'recipient' is taken on a journey, much like that of the Ghost of christmas yet to come in the novel 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, the Sentinel exposes the many baffling moments in history where life has been the bargaining tool, sometimes for lives thought more worthy, often for the cruelest ends. Our recipient plays the role of apologist, yet ultimately fails to convince even himself. We begin.
AWOKEN
Recipient;
Teeth clenched in the sour glut of copper extinguished where light dare not tread
clutched is the fading delusions of safety that I might wake to find the glare of livid day
again he awaits the ravening veneer of wrinkled white the cowl of Pompeii soot
the rancour of black death yersinia Pestis bubonic entrance of my nightly scourge
he bows with gristle creak a grin beneath his beak undulation of bone and skin
seeping digits delve within seeking the marrow of felicity
medieval curlicue serifs black inflection danse macabre palaeography
a mockery of script the rigour garb of acheron, leaden sleep anoints him
Sentinel;
shall we begin?
Recipient;
the malignancy bows and gestures on his sanctum shrouds
I have no choice no argument for the dark entices alluring truths
seeping digits dwell within seeking the marrow of felicity