XIII

On the horizon you spot it

A gathering darkness

Like so many swarming buzzing corpse flies

The sun died behind it

Yet the sky before you

Still seems a simple sunset

But there

Bulging

Is that blackness

That badness

Quickly growing

Ravenously consuming

Your nails claw at your cheeks

Ragged strips of flesh fall away

A scream

Ragged

Tears from your throat

Your mind fumbles for reason

Some order

Some cause for all of this

But finds none

The walls scream too

And as the world dies

You glimpse behind the encroaching gloom

Something bright

And new

Smile

I came first

Before the prestidigitation

Before the psychiatrist turned religious head

Before the queen

and her tyrant

Before the new order

Before it all

I was there

A smile I carved

Upon everyone’s face

I am every beginning

The unfettered potential

The master of none

The harbinger of greatness

Close your eyes

Allow the world to take you

Walk weird as I do

And I’ll see you through

And I’ll see through you

I am The Fool

But turn me over

See the otherside

A Hanged Man’s warning

Look before you leap

Elsewise prepare for what you meet