Telomeric Erosion

With catatonic eyes
 And impetuous spirit
 We gaze starward
 While the wolves of old
 Ravage our homesteads
 While quicksand devours
 Our steadfast stance
 Legs of flesh strain to hold aloft
 The ill conceived colossus
 Chiselled so haphazardly from heroes and idols
 Bones crack and buckle
 Beneath the crushing weight
 Of a yokesworth ambitions piled high
 I run
 With brittle fingers I claw for the horizon
 Untiring death follow
 The earth cracks beneath my fumbling gait
 Our gazes meet as bodies wither
 Indifference is my only courtesy
 This death is final
 For I am all
 How I lament and revel
 Within the romance of my decay
 As ideals and endeavors become as ashes
 Swept aloft in the faltering winds
 Dreams of the stars
 And intoxicating immortality
 Draped like a veil so threadbare
 Obscuring a death we share
 Beneath this distant sky
 In the twilight of our time
 The fading light and dulcet tones
 As the shadows grow long
 And the stars dim
 All that was made is unmade
 All that was discovered is swept in to obscurity
 All that I have been falls from recollection
 And all that is ceases to be