Hope

Written as a response to the complaint : "CMV: My view outside my window is a Red Brick Wall, it is ugly, and I would like to see a different perspective on my city. Change my view."

 

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...

- Milton, Paradise Lost

 

There is nothing better than a brick wall outside your window.

Solid. Steady. Constant.

Forget the world beyond your walls, untold horrors lie in wait;

 

With jagged edge and razors sharpness,

a billion lost souls walk the streets,

on the brink of subtle suicide.

 

Of twisted flesh and festering lies, smiling,

daggered teeth, exhale sweet poisons:

words of welcome to the banquet.

 

Eat to fill or starve of indifference,

the silence of a trillion dying stars

crushes down, ready to push you into the abyss.

 

Stay behind your brick wall, secure in you visions of home,

firm in your belief that a beautiful world lies just a step beyond.

 

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EDIT: Slightly edited.