A Lesson Before Dying Inseo “Alexis” Yang

A Lesson Before Dying

By Inseo “Alexis” Yang

When the horizon’s eye closes here at the brink held by the wind

viridescent deadly shades bounced off the cross dimming cascade about to stroll off a fleeting thought: very decent

once to be praised now to be blamed no shine dare to reflect on a deity dressed in roseate skin

mobbing infant apes chant bystands too many eyes sewing slogs of violence clawing the hog to demise

Now they sorrow out of the blue, or out of the green, omniscience revives claro, play the mafia on one another

Run Run Run to the mortal, Hug Kiss Embrace it with pouring empathy though, oh, dreadful— a pale body

immortal is to be loved to be lived and to be led to an end by the ones who loved

When the sun’s ebb ceases the awkward lost one lies solitary abandoned by the hate