EK

i received a note today
from life it read:
fear emptiness
fear no art
fear the awful boredom of security
never curse that you have thrown yourself
into the abyss and failed to properly plan
the smug smooth path chooses other
and fails to tremble feels above
and ends in a dark closet
i have exploded like a flower
tremble everyday and truly suffer the humiliation
of the mortally bereft the eternal fool
worse and worse it seems and YET
mother's dying words do not echo
she was wrong
this is my path
i leave behind words to show it
and star waltz! and others now given the Grand Curse
little mordant fears
dig deep your claws
slash my integuments and i shall wear the cone
OF SHAME
but the words from life said:
no dark closet. no silence for you. no dim dull stone crypt
FLY into the air
not brave
but not dull
or safe
i am exploded
far and out