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The rot beneath my extinct hope.

Posted: 02 Aug 2025 08:17
by SunsetToArise
Have you seen it?
The darkness behind the eyes.
Not the kind born of sleep
but the kind that stares back.
Where there was once laughter
there is only the grinding of teeth.
Where fire once lived
only smoke claws at the lungs.

The light doesn't vanish all at once.
It begs.
It flickers.
It lies still.
And in the end
there is only hatred.
Raw. Aimless. Endless.
For them.
For you.
For me.

They told me,
"If you can see the dark, there is still light."
A child's lie, warm and bloodless.
"Maybe your hatred is the rot of hope."
As if that made it noble.
As if I hadn’t already
carved that rot out
and fed it to the flies.

But rot means something once lived.
And that is supposed to comfort me.

I have seen the bones beneath the skin.
Heard the smiles crack.
Felt the way love festers
when it's left too long in silence.
I have sat with the shadows.
Not beside me
inside me.
Knocking against the ribs.
Pacing behind the eyes.

All I see now is darkness.
Where love once bloomed
the petals have become blades.
Where hope once stirred
a sour wind whispers,
"No one is coming. No one ever was."

And I find myself smiling.
Not from joy
but from the freedom of having nothing left to lose.

Let them call it madness.
Let them call it grief.
Let them call it anything they want.
I call it clarity.


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Re: The rot beneath my extinct hope.

Posted: 02 Aug 2025 11:23
by packajos000
Page 191

"Take me to that blessed Region where. . . before my ravished eye a Cube, moving in some altogether new direction. . . shall create a still more prefect perfection than himself. . . . And once there, shall we stay our upward course? In that blessed region of Four Dimensions, shall we linger on the threshold of the Fifth, and not enter therein? Ah, no! Let us rather resolve that our ambition shall soar with our corporeal ascent. Then, yielding to our intellectual onset, the gates of the Sixth Dimension shall fly open, after that a Seventh, and then an Eighth. . ."6


4 REAL 36 18 9
4 CUBE 31 13 4
3 EYE 35 17 8
1 I 9 9 9
2 ME 18 9 9
4 EYES 54 18 9
3 GEO 27 18 9
3 EGO 27 18 9
10 EGOCENTRIC 99 54 9
7 REALITY 90 36 9

Re: The rot beneath my extinct hope.

Posted: 02 Aug 2025 12:40
by SunsetToArise
1 I 9 9 9
4 HAVE 36 18 9
8 ASCENDED 55 27.5 1
3 AND 19 9.5 1
1 I 9 9 9
3 SAW 43 21.5 7
3 THE 33 16.5 6
5 TRUTH 87 43.5 6
1 I 9 9 9
3 SAW 43 21.5 7
3 THE 33 16.5 6
6 DOMINI 64 32 1