The Burden of Restlessness, by King Buffalo (2024)

1.

I turn my head from the starsTo find I’m bound to the pyre It feels like every day, another ruthless flameI think I’m drowning in fireAnother year lost in the wastelandAnother day drowns in dustAnother one dead in the wastelandI feel it falling apartToo many blisters and scarsAre we the wick or the flame, are they just one in the sameWas it just doomed from the start

2.

I don’t know which way to runOne thousand different ways but I can’t seem to live with oneSo I’m stuck where I’ve begunAnother languid day, can’t seem to break awayWhen I was young I tried a million different ways to findA panacea that would hebetate a restless mind25 and all I find are clever ways to hideEvery night I dream a million different ways for me to die Every night I close my eyesI lie awake and try to pacify a listless mindNothing’s changed at 35Still every night I dream a million different ways for me to die

3.

In the ether an ominous sound An intemperate waveLocusts engulfing the fieldAn insatiable plagueEmblazoned in emblems of navy and grayPerched on the horizonAs they swallow the sunMade bold with a canting eyeAnd the warmth of a gunGilded in armor of navy and grayMalevolent stormRavenous swarmCold and pious they push from the skyNo contrition there, as they circle the fieldStifling the sun with wicked handsEverything undone with vicious plansHand of the shieldSuppressing the fieldHand of the shieldSmothering the field

4.

I stare at the cracks in the wallAnd melt into nothing A silverfish slithering away, from everythingI pick at the cracks in the wallThe rats in the attic meandering byI feel like I’m losing my grip on everything, I’m drifting awayI stare at the cracks in the wallI think I’m unravellingA silverfish slithering away, from everything, and everyone

5.

Each night as I crawl alongOver the sandsI sift through the blood and the fog Head in my handsI make my way over the dunesDesolate and dryThe remnants of empires past Too stubborn to dieMorbid and familiarEach hill like the lastThe grifters importunate handAn insatiable graspWhispering in semaphorePious and vainSurrounded by sycophantsWithered and grayHe promises deliveranceDay after dayReleasing only pestilenceAnd festering decay

6.

Everyday I wake up on the floorAnother useless day like every other that’s come before I can feel it creeping more and moreDon’t think I wanna wake no more, don’t think I wanna live no moreAs I press my ear against the floorA knocking beckons from the barricade on the door I can hear it pounding more and moreDon’t think that I can take no more, don’t think I wanna live no more

7.

I’m nestling into the soil, observing it allA peregrine floats above the cloudsI don’t know if I’ll ever espy the root of it allStill I press my face into the ground, I’m waiting for the hammer to fallI think I’m beginning to see the root of it all Myopia gradually giving wayThe imminent tide leads to restlessnessA forest springs out of nothingness The fear promenading awayIn its shadow a voidFix my eye to the barren pathWhere I only remainI’m shedding the burden of restlessnessTo rise from the loam of the nothingness

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