Carl Setzer

Winter’s Passing

Clouds eating sunlight
Gray brightening in the morn
Life passing quickly

Keep looking forward
Resist backward obsession
Growth is my focus

Stare into their souls
Nurture to magnificence
Grasping their true being

Dreaming in daylight.
Seeking suffering’s ending.
Our primary force: love.

Zombies long for brains
Flavors of their living past
Faded dreams of life.

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Two sets of legs
Intertwine.
Caressing gently.
Passion, absent
Love.

Hard skin
Rattles against
Touch.
Consummation
Culminates
With consumption,
Destruction of one.

Each pair of legs
Re-divides, eight
Alone again.

At once both fearsome
And calmly reassuring.
Strange duality.

Retreating darkness
Light now slowly reclaiming
Losses of winter.

You rage against me
Simply because I exist.
Windswept barren sand.

Strange torturous song
Delight, anguish born anew
Without it we die.