light rays and streaks of dawnfire the flesh has yet to wake
Author: Elancharan இளஞ்சேரன்
Elancharan Gunasekaran is a multidisciplinary artist and poet. He has a strange love for all things poetical and Sci-Fi. A winner of the Montblanc X Esquire Six-word Story prize 2017. His latest publications are Superatomicluminal (Hesterglock Press), Gods of the Gonzo (Analog Submission Press) and The Cosmosnaut Manifesto (UndergroundBooks).
spread thin as the fog creeping slow across the forest floor
summer bodies flirting with the cool light of dawn
a frail hand reaches out to make a pact with the void
where the abyss meets the light a place for displaced feelings
you feel the summertime burn the madness inspire
palpitating pressure builds ready to explode and free itself from this prison of flesh
a no refund policy on the resident grey matter inside
we each pay a portion of our souls for the right to exist
before dawn making sense of ghastly scribbles on the wall