The Notorious Ampitheater of Humanity

quieter still spun the  path. shedding all the turbulence from dead flesh. 

the why trundled onward. a sliver of a reason. amongst the immensity of our nothing. 

i had been waiting. chewing on the silence. thinking it could sate my hunger. 

i had been counting. the contents of the fairy tale. 

the witches. the wolves. the victims. 

imagining there might be a ratio that could reconcile. 

all the broken equations under our skin. 

i had been watching the rain fall. anticipating the flood. 

waiting to drown. 

forgetting that i knew how to swim.