The Artist’s Pennant
I
do seek.
What eddies
whirl until they pale
beneath, pushing purpose
to flowing beyond me continuously
losing myself to that maelstrom whose
swirling, turning, circling breathes
endless as it pulls me deeper
a storm now evermore
brewing within
this mortal
core.
I
do fight.
A recurring battle
reincarnated at each dawn
carnal as the blood which spawns
words without meaning to life again
to death as the cycle begins another turn
hands ticking seconds to the infinite
surrender, I might, one day if my
breath should indeed cease
but my feet march to
an endless beat to
the final hours
I do not
await.
I
am one.
Amongst the fallen
on the precipice, I am
that banner which stands listless
tattered, marking corpses overrun by
armies whose hands murdered all my
ardent desires and fulcrums I
lost, to be found yet again
as the dust settles in
to that silent
ever dying
din.
I
have lost.
Yet still I kneel
to that ruling hunger
synonymous to my nature both
destructive and creative at its apex
which commands my hands yet again
returning, I must then relinquish
fear once more as the sun
spawns dawn, so now
yet another battle
calls me again,
and again
I shall
begin.