The Rot - Kamikabe

Timber unfit for the fire

Rotten and infested

Sinking slowly into the earth below

A small stem of life remains at the core

A shrinking ribbon of vessels drawing sustenance from its own husk of

decomposing tissues

Eating away at itself to survive just a bit longer

Once a mighty tree deeply rooted, once admirable now blown to the ground by the

winds of time, unable to withstand the encumbrance of its own growth

And as that of man in disdain he feeds from a corrosive regret that hollows out

cavities that once held him in passion

Eating the rot becoming the void

The insidious poison of regret that turns man into chaff and the living to dead