Monday 17 February 2014

The Ride before the Fall

Sweet insists on coupling sour to give that ingenuous taste; rhapsody fondly carries on its back the promise of self-ruination. The certainty of obliteration keeps the forward march on. There is just so much of this life that was worthy of living. Now a new one must be created, which can’t happen without effacing the previous. Therefore this joy in destruction. The tremors are not those of fear; the shoot trembles in trying to tear through the roof of the soil.


First published in Metaphor Magazine, 17 February 2014.


2 comments:

probe said...

Why this certainty of obliteration?

ankita said...

Death wishes are usually granted.

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