My skin is made of sandpaper.
My touch wounds and wears me down.
I have burned all the bridges
and severed all ties.
My universe is retreating.
I can inhabit my small world.
Familiar faces, touches and voices.
I survive by the ceremony of habit
wearing the cloak of customs
and a crown of solitude.
It’s all so comforting and suffocating.
I keep walking through these fields,
hoping to find battles and debris,
mines hidden or exploded,
any destructive force that might explain
the missteps pulsing inside my chest.
The teeth of the gears grind crookedly.
My springs can’t hold the coil anymore.
My clock hands follow only barren directions.
Everything swings so unevenly.
The wind wears me down like a sandcastle.
I have forgotten what secrets or virtues
these walls were supposed to protect.
A wave will certainly come
and level me to the ruins I meekly seek.
Chaos, the ruler of lightning.
( χάος κεραυνός κυβερνήτης )