Dust and Moonlight - WRVTH

This room smells of stale smoke

Walls stained a muted yellow

Decorated by holes from nails once hammered and a table filled with senseless

clutter

There’s tiny particles embedded in the floor

No matter how you try to pick them up they still lie beneath the surface

As if they were always there and forever will be long after we’re gone

Like the inevitable end to everything we pursue

Gnats ping round and round with no pattern or destination

In this focused space that they aimlessly fly

There’s a question I ask myself

Are they that different from me?

Amidst the constant chatter

There’s a high pitched ring

That grows louder and louder

There’s no articulating it but it seems so prolific

Like the novelty pieces scattered on the mantle

That have no reason but seem to be the only place they belong

Dull, lifeless, beauty

Endlessly starving for a place to truly rest