“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.”
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“Mors: Memento Mori” | 011120251945
In the hollowness between
A gasp and silence
There lingers a fluid observer
Carved into the air like
Fading smoke
The uninvited witness, with
Ghost-like purpose and born
Before even the first beat of
Blood to heart
He walks eternal and alone
In a strange silence, just after
Life’s crescendo and before
Death’s final note
Mors - the slow blink of the
Tired, wandering eye, yet
Ever-watching a film unseen
Of existence’s dismantling
What is it to carry every ending,
To never know a beginning?
In the soft sigh of the aged
Lover’s last dream,
In the cry of the mother
Whose child slips away -
They plead with and curse
The merciless thief, Mors
The one denied these wonders,
Helplessness and fear
If it could feel, it would envy them
At the moment where time is nil,
There is an echo radiating unto
Itself - a scream declaring
“Memento mori!”
Though for Mors, there is no
Need to remember, just the
Imitation of a longing for
Just one moment more
A visual interpretation of the poem "Loose Cipher", created through a machine learning framework known as a GAN (General Adversarial Network).
“Loose Cipher “| 022620222105
Tipped, off
Nervous ticks talk on
Top of the scoff
Your cough should’ve covered
~666 mil scythe sics
‘Til all are still, sick
So you slip on
Sloppy whisper licks,
Trip over the water walk
Only one foot sticks to;
Fall before the
After thought you fought
Against, its false instincts
Then all the sins you
Dip into flip over
The wishes you’ve
Since shipped, so
Rowing through even the
Thickest skins, odds are
Your holy boat is drinkin’
Spilled Styx drips
But if you’re quick, you’ll
Sip it up ‘fore your
Fishes sink, or fill
It in with selfish plugs
And through Devilish,
Loose-cipher quips
As if Lucifer itself
Is listening in...
Well... Holy Hell...
Then isn’t it?
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