Barely Alive

Whoosh,
goes the wind in the south,
cradling and breaking everything in its path

Crack,
goes the dead branches laying around,
falling and lying dead on the ground

Whistling is heard about,
a noise no stranger to my ears,
I look about to see where it is from,
there my eyes lay on a dead animal's skull

From far I can see,
with ultra-vulture eyes,
the dead things around me,
laying afar 

Near the village of the dead ghosts,
lay their bones,
long forgotten and,
baked by the scorching sun

The cracked lake bed,
steams with hot air,
cooking anything that dares to cross it

A howl is heard,
a mile away,
I look to and fro,
there standing bravely on a limestone mountain,
lays the coyote

Who is the one who,
chews on the forgotten,
preys on anything moving about

Dares to declare itself,
King of the Land,
doing what it pleases,
moving when wishing 

Here at this moment,
I have seen too much,
nothing moving,
nothing sounding

Everything around me dead,
lifeless souls move about,
making shadows from every depth,
creeping upon me, step-by-step

I have had enough of this,
on this lifeless planet,
no fresh air to breathe,
except the sour smells of the past,
nothing to eat,
except the dead, the rotten and the tasteless,
nothing for shelter,
but the melting ground beneath my feet,
nothing above me,
except the flaring sun

I wear nothing,
but broken memories of the past,
filthy and ageless

My feet burn as I stand,
my face filled with sweat and tears,
my body roasting like a turkey,
my decision is made

I look up high to the blinding sun,
the time has come,
I take a deep breath,
feeling the hot air exile,
yes it is time

Misery and loneliness,
depression and emptiness,
have filled my heart

But all these emotions,
will soon leave,
when I leave

I lay down on the gratey oven beneath me,
my body aching with every movement, 
my skin burning with every grain,
I rest my head on a hot stone,
my head boils with every second

I look up one last time,
towards the cloudless, gray sky,
the death eaters have come,
swarming the sky in seconds,
the sky now becomes,
a dark abyss of vultures

I suck one last big hot air,
allowing it roast inside me,
I close my eyes and wait,
for the Earth around me to take me in

My fate has been long-awaited,
and this is how it must end





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