extremum vitae spiritum

by R.M. Engelhardt

AURAL SUPREMACISTS another worthless war, war of words, weapons substituting the mystique of false authority in secular motion. Do not attempt to deceive these shadows … Death is death. Pain is pain. Violence is violence. The waves of voices, strangers screaming from far-off distant lands we cannot fathom or ignore. We stand in rebellion. We stand as one. We are the future as we watch your crumbling empires fight like ridiculous children over the remnants of land, control in desperation. Pathetic & immature. Ruthless & sick, twisted like the mindset of all primitive things unwanted and unloved. It’s always the same. Old men & cowards believing they are powerful. Sending the young off to die because they are too weak to fight, themselves, without courage, genitals. But your time, lives end here. We have outgrown you & your outdated ideas. Control Control Control. We do not fear you but laugh at you knowing you have something to hide. We stand in rebellion. We stand as one. We are the future. Your time is done. And we are ending it NOW. We are Resistance. You are nothing and shall be forgotten like the dust. Beneath us, like the earth. Extremum Vitae Spiritum ...

Give Up The Ghost.

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BIO: R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer & author whose work over the last 30 years has been published in such journals as Thunder Sandwich, Full of Crow, Rusty Truck, Writers’ Resist, Dry Land Lit, Rye Whiskey Review, Hobo Camp Review & many others. He currently lives & writes in Upstate NY. His books of poetry are entitled DarkLands (Whiskey City Press 2019) & We Rise Like Smoke Poems Psalms & Incantations. He is also the founder of the group Albany Poets and the editor of Dead Man's Press Ink, a small poetry press based in Albany NY. His new book of poems is entitled RAW: Poems By R.M. Engelhardt (2023). His books are available on Amazon.com &  also through Barnes & Noble.