Everything Will Escape

-Everything Will Escape-
by
Keaton Foster



Everything will escape
You and me
Us
The sun and the moon
Darkness and pain
Hope and joy
Every one of our Justifiable rewards
And our token treasures of achievement
Scars created from ailments
Always hurting just because
Loving out of desperation
Alone none of us want to be
Yet most alone we often seem
Doing what it takes will no longer be
Doing what must be done will matter none
All of it
All of this
Will mean nothing
Obliteration
Through our decisions
Ones that cannot be taken back
Or made right
We are people
Joined at the hip
But separated by birth
Cardboard cutouts
Carbon copies
Defective from the get
A hell of a thing to lament
But there is
Beautiful, unadulterated truth
Everything will escape
Everything will be set free
Into the ether
Far past the heavens above
Way beyond the hell below
Out into the depths of darkness
Beyond all known concepts
Rationale will mean nothing
Such simple minded beings
We were never meant to know
Bliss through ignorance
Bankrupt knowledge
As always holding no value
Superlative in every way
Just like each one of us
Have been and will become
Excuse the harshness
I use to believe that we were special
And thus specialty was a possibility
But certainly that is not true
Life is the table upon which we all feast
Our gullets are full
Overstuffed we have become
Meanness quickly turned kindness
And back again
Individualism turned collectiveness
And back again
Dare I say not out of choice
But rather out of our case
Spoken minds will be made silent
No opinions or ideals will be needed
Everything will escape
Everything will be set free
Leaving this place
Out into the ether
An ever-expansive wilderness
Of incredulous blackness
Made by us and for us
Because in life we continually fight to believe
That our death will be something more
Than the nothing that it will be
Everything will escape
Out of every shape
Into an expansive vastness
With no shape at all…




Everything Will Escape
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.