New Year

poetry/z/zircons_beacon.txt

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+ZIRCON'S BEACON
+2023-01-01
+
+***
+
+before, in your grief, you sigh with a tear
+"it would be better for everyone if I disappeared"
+just remember every person who's ever held you dear
+
+with faces erased and memories decayed
+who recall your actions if not your own name:
+"She brightened, even if only for a moment, my days."
+
+but these last six months, you've in bed languished
+as all the things you counted on from you slipped:
+the promise of employment, the hope of safety,
+the Outside-bound ticket messless and pain-free
+
+you jumped from the cliff as exhorted last Oracle
+and unfurled your wings to catch all the wind you could hold
+but while has deepened the bond with your wife
+this is not true flight but only slow glide
+
+gradual realization that in life you lost
+while the destination grows anything but soft:
+the climate beats harsher, economy bereft,
+hordes at the gates demanding your own death
+
+wings too weak to your body elevate
+but is there strength to turn elsewhere you'll less hate?
+one of these days you'll be free again
+can you find a way to survive until then?
+
+I hold this zircon gem up to the sky
+in hopes it'll catch the fading sunset light
+and scatter to fire, diamond-like rainbow:
+my beacon follow to know where to go
+
+***
+
+
+CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (c) Vane Vander