Ouroboros - Em Pollicino

Tears like

Petals

Forever

Falling

In grief.

The cold

Preps life for a

Simulated death.

Branches spindle like skeletal remains

Grass gasps for life under suffocation of snow.

Silence of

decay.

A deer starved in the barren lands cape.

A rabbit bleeding crimson into the foreground

A fox with a bloody maw shaking.

Life choked.

My fingers shake,

Childish curiosity in the sickest of forms.

The corpse of a BluJay

I press a finger into the freezing flesh,

It is stiff, cold, the feathers crunch under the pressure.

Wide eyes wait for life to stir,

wait for the standard state.

Fluttering,

Screeching,

Scuttling with soul.

Of course, it did not move.

I cried till I choked on my own tears.

I did not know what death was.