Ennui, in You & Me

Pale sheets of slate 

Arcanely etched on attrition's crown.

Forgotten dates,

Sealing severance 

From a lofty scowl.

It speaks in shapes

Pulling roots over mountains, 

And then underground.

A binding name, 

Conquers flow 

By a rigorous route.

Sewn faces leer,

Come unbound 

While witnessing graves 

Buried with doubt 

 

A silent shame, 

Regret overwhelms 

By the heated clouds

Pouring away, 

Counting the lesions 

Under a legion of shrouds.

I look up, you look down,

You checked in, and then I checked out.

An absent light 

The world overwhelms another's frown

These lyrics interred

With the secrets of sound

Steps on concrete confide reliance

conferring breaths between the sighing.

And in these miles the footfall talks

Of the quitting game, by your easy walk

This moving gray parting tributaries,

Walk away from the Humanitary.