Confessions of a Dead Head

The years of past genius

are found in dark eyes,

for watching, they realize,

that all will be but dust.

So stifling they must

be all of their sighs,

allowing life and all its lies,

to be as always preposterous.

For in their wearied, red-eyed wisdom,

they see wants that burn with desire,

that stack in pyres from youth to old age,

in Islam through Christendom,

fueling fires we mortals must wage.
- J. J.

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