Ridicule’s ghostly laughter

Burrows into the soul

Resurrected from silence

From the cold ground’s embrace

~

Its shadows stalk through daydreams

Breathing ancient slurs

As a casual sigh

Slicing from the inside

~

With a deep breath

We stagger back to humanity’s wrath

Returned to the journey

Upwards and through the white stars

~

Until the mad laughter wanes

To a pitiful death cry

Uttered long ago

Fading

Under palaces of sand