A twisted poem about a man who has the world, as he sees it, and then it all falls apart. |
-Bastion Of Oblivion- by Keaton Foster Within Deepness Inside Darkness Distant The forest Fractured The kingdom All of it meant to be Or so it does seem Eternal Is such wickedness Housed within bricks Part of the foundation Of his tragic empire Built to honor a man Who has done Nothing honorable Everything questionable Many of the temples Once erect Now are in shambles Further neglected By a truer emptiness They stood no chance He alone resides No one serves him No one adores him No one will repair That which is So helplessly broken He is all alone Within skin Within bones In a tower The highest point A place most divine At least in his mind He has come to sit At the foot Of an old bed His head Hung in his hands His heart quite ill He cries to himself No one knows No one listens It’s just him And his sadness It’s just him And his madness Any kind of a family Nonexistent A love to call wife No longer present He lost it all Or any chance of it Long before this All that remains All there is to claim Is this His fractured kingdom A bastion of oblivion The last as he sees it All that was built Is crumbling away Being destroyed By age and decay Leaving behind Unusable waste Thus enslaving change What must be faced Deeper he does slip Into a sadness Over all that is missed And all that could have been He will never recover His dominion Will further fall All that was built In his honor Will come to be nothing It will be consumed By the encroaching forest And the creatures That live within it His bastion of oblivion Will become unidentifiable Alone At the foot of his bed He cries for an escape One that will never come He cries for salvation Maybe even redemption Both will not be his He has nothing In every possible sense Soon his tower will fall Crumbling down Into the blackness Of all that is around He will be crushed By all that was built To honor him A man devoid Of honorable things… Bastion Of Oblivion Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2015. |