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A ray of doubt pierced the sky
the clouds burned black
look down, look down to whence it seeped
slow burning in the bubbles

and why?
they're the shining heads bobbing
gray hands pulling
into the darkness

watch the spark curl
alone in the darkness
shedding spikes and tendrils
writhing into nothingness
with a despairing whine

where are you?
blind
stumbling among hollow boxes
wood echoes
each day tells the path
and mechanical 
follow it
with bruises

faith shines
but in what?
laser into the darkness will pinpoint destiny
mirrors within mirrors within mirrors
clash back the light into your eyes

I woke sweating from a dream of blinding light
terrified
every day is a cliff edge
step into an inevitable future
shaped
building the stone walls with your own hands
out of dreamstuff
claymoist and musty

destiny's feet pounding behind me
at my throat
destiny's breath on my neck
who are you?

and what is the ideal?
raise to the machine
I am all bones and soft tissues
I am hovering between
contours and pseudopodia

living on borrowed future
portioned out day by day
sell you a piece of my soul?
it's quiet and doesn't eat much

the lizards lay on the bank
in the dead sun
ungoing anywhere
feed me your unmotivation
and I will turn it into energy
emergency rations of outrage