Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Ribs & Rust

What is stopping you

from giving it all up?

Why do you still breathe —

as if your absence

might dislodge the moon

or un-write a single obituary?


Where do you find

this cocaine of delusion —

that you’re cosmic,

not just a condom-break

that outlived abortion

and became someone’s

annual tax deduction?


How do you move

when even your shadow

refuses to follow

on darker days?


You were never more

than soft tissue

on a ticking clock —

just another organism

crawling through routine,

praying today’s not your last,

hallucinating purpose

in concrete spines

and paper money.


The only difference is:

their hopes are humble —

to not die in the rain.

You write centuries

that won’t remember your name.


What you call wisdom

is auctioned ignorance.

What you call progress

is suicide in uniform.

What you call evolution

is bedtime folklore

told to calm

a terrified ape in denial.


If tomorrow greets you

with no hope,

no meaning,

no myth left to cling to —

pick up a rusted knife,

let it argue with your ribs

until one of you gives in.


And in that final,

exquisite silence,

you’ll learn:


everything they ever told you

was a beautiful lie —

so they could believe

a little longer.

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