Ruin
- John Mumm
In the depths of a crumbling house
I stumbled across the floor
and stared at the walls
white borders to the outside world
reaching to touch what lay beyond
I would have called out
but my voice would remain
unheard
another crash in the distance
I gazed at the ceiling so far above
its greyness made my stomach turn
and I grew sick from exhaustion
and confusion
unable to crawl any further
I collapsed and turned my eyes
upwards
in one last vain attempt
to beg for the mercy
of that collapsing ruin
in which I was slowly dying
And then the walls melted blood red
into razor iron beams
And then the floor turned stone cold
as I suffered to remain there
And then the ceiling so far above
began to splinter
into a hundred thousand fragments
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