Conquer and Dissolve

by

Crystal Dawn Allen

On an ancient wooden porch
swaying on a rocker
to the rhythm of the sea. One leg up
on one arm,
shotgun cradled like
a devastating angel
Waits and stares
over vast oceans and distant horizons,
expectations flooded
As if awaiting someone or something to attack,
or else arrive with the tide
and threaten.

Always in fear. Always in defense.

Hear the crusade, the marching molecules, the unstoppable blue crashing at the point of chaos, steely tongues and swords glinting in the sunlight,
frothing through sandy lips

Conquer and dissolve.

Armed and alert,
aware and afraid,
the shotgun perpetually pointed at
the giant wet and watery creature, each sounding wave
an enemy footstep on an eternal beach, each abrasive grain of sand
tumbling through an hourglass
during midnight excursions, singing

sssssssssssssssssss
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

These skies are gray; they are never
blue, never faltering
in their aqua-binary, zeroes and ones
squirting through the depths of the mind.

Liquid brooms sweeping away
the existence, sweeping away
the proof, sweeping away
the rivers we give ourselves to
We give ourselves no peace.

Conquer.

Dissolve.

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by: John William McGrath III
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