Tuesday, April 04, 2006

I Advance Masked

I advance masked
Through eddying crowds
Of my dreamless fellows.
We have offered them up,
Severed, hacked, mutilated
And burnt at the stake
In our mindless sacrificial rite
Baptized daily life.
What we seek is the peace of dreamless sleep.
What we receive
Is ash.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

edgy, intelligent and enunciated. im vastly impressed, as always.

ether said...

"What we seek is the peace of dreamless sleep..."

So true.