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The Eastern Wendigo

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 5 years ago 1 min read

Description seems inadequate

To capture Nature’s essence

When life is solely permanent

In momentary prescience

Yet still her eminence unveils

A grim facade exterior

When setting suns, besetting sails

Reveal the realm’s ulterior

Unmotivated inspiration

Morphing into beauty’s beast

A hideous abomination

Come to wage its war of peace

And watch the world dehumanize

Itself in feasts of banquet flesh

Before starvation’s slow demise

Can feast its eyes on Bangladesh

And sink into the Indian

Where karma is the salt in wounds

Samsara born to die again

In Shiva’s doom-impending tombs

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