Entropy

You veered into the tunnel
where the light sifts through
your glass-like body
and you did a double take
in looking back into
the ethereal horizon
where the sun sinks
and tailored your own demise
in its black treacle

Your iron eyes connived
with the melanin of the night
and holds you in a chasm
swelling, fecundating
to devour you wholly

You float inside,
bludgeoned by the void,
it was roofless, bottomless,
fringeless - eternal darkness
has come upon you

Because you refuse
to cicatrize the wounds
as you walk in flames
of leonine coals,
and you reduce into ashes
over and over

But lift your eyelids
and lower your arms,
and let the search lights
find your wreck
cry for help, for life
and let the void
be the womb
that shall reborn you,
so when you let go
you shall be renewed

poem by Norman Santos
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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