Writing Prompt #103 “Judgment”

Death tears across the pavement

Machines crumple like abandoned silk

Occupants shatter, the tumulus riven

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It was such an ordinary dream

A tree shaved down to paper

The wreckage cuing fans

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The mob has a love of theater

Unrivaled by the individual

Justice is voyeurism, nothing more.

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It was pity that murdered.

The wrung hands and slack-jaws

That intervened under

The pretense of salvage

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Spin the wheel,

Let fate dictate your poison

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Thyme: “How can you judge a man from the outside, no matter how thin the glass you are certain to catch a reflection.”

Thanatos: “You’ve got to tear the rind to get at the fruit within…it’s our responsibility to judge…we’re effective because we are impartial…I am a dummy I cast no viable reflection…”

Thyme “Aren’t you afraid of warping the subject’s personality? Isn’t it possible you’ll create a new aspect entirely?”

Thanatos: “A new aspect? Do you mean to suggest that the subjects are altered by the extraction?”

Thyme: “Of course they are! We’ve introduced a bias simply in the act of observation….and these games…you are making monsters and then….erasing them…”

Thantos: “Why shouldn’t we erase them? The one’s who become monsters…have a defect…we can’t recycle them…it’ll weaken the stock…”

Zhen: “It is infuriating dealing with beings that can articulately question and ponder their own existence but are utterly incapable of drawing any legitimate conclusions despite having the answers blatantly and repeatedly presented to them.”

Sev’Tai (sarcastically): “Oh but when they arrive at some conclusion it’s so much better…they destroy each other over their beliefs…it is ironic isn’t it? They value individuality above all and yet they cannot accept  a dissenting opinion….they treat life as if it were a uniform….a script….an obligation…all to avoid suffering…”

Thyme: “They suffer a lot more for the avoidance…if only they could see that happiness is not external…that it cannot be prescribed or procured by any external means or conditions…”

Thanatos: “Do you know how many times we’ve had to reset earth? How many times they’ve destroyed themselves…because I have lost count….the filtering process will buy us some more time….each time around they destroy progressively more of the universe…it’s getting out of hand…”

Thyme: “Isn’t that why we created them in the first place? As a catalyst for change? They are destructive and nonsensical…intentional or not..they force us to evolve…to adapt…I will not distill their essence for my own convenience.”

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Will it be the white or the blue door?

How about a true game of chance

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What man has the courage

To reach between his ribs and grasp

Gently the compass within? 

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For

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Hail Mary

What but a thought

Can consume

Without exhaustion?

And though the medium

Grow weary,

Media is never

In short supply.

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I venture to hold my tongue

But the words come unbidden,

Exposure is the best defense

Against sentry and I would have

Offered myself to anyone

If it would ensure amnesia.

To end one must first begin

And no one has begun

More often than I.

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It is not in my design

To be mysterious, only hopeful.

Company can extend but so far,

I crave loneliness

For in those moments

One can exercise freely their selfness.

Everyone needs time

Without sanity or justification,

To be so and live as such.

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There’s a terror

That can only be

Visualized on reflection,

The virgin and the bloody,

Mary is in us all.

Each morning I hail her

As one might a cab.

The grave sleep,

The crust in my lashes

Like the tears of larvae

The nightly death

Leaving me quite naked.

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Written on my E-reader on the bus (just learned to make notes haha)