Desert Dweller

-thoughts on life, death and gardening.

Profanities


Secret words are everywhere
on every raindrop, in every cell,
on every fiber and every star.

In the labyrinthine library
of incomprehensible books,

every line, every word written,
is an unnecessary stain
on silence and nothingness—
spoiling the virgin purity of the void.

Written words
are self-quickening.
Racing into the abyss
without full understanding.
they stew and boil and stink.

The void gags
and regurgitates them with breath of fire.
They burn silently leaving behind only ash.
Silence is teeming,
nothingness abounds
words are insignificant.

So here I am,
pencil in hand,
lying in darkness,
letting the days forget me.

© 2025 Bruno Talerico
Stafford challenge 239/365.
Inspired by Borges and Beckett.

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