theADROCK

While walking home Through matted woods, Thick with foliage and life, I came upon a human skull. Fragmented, Half-shattered, Terrible and Beautiful. Its hollow socket peered at me from the earth,   and Its haunting glare froze me, Consumed me, And a swell of pity gathered in my breast. And a thousand moral lessons about life All eluded me at once. So we stood-- Locked In awkward silence. Its yellow-ochre visage And its indomitable gaze Caused my heart to Falter. And yet I stood Staring back Like Titus in his catacombs Mourning his fallen brood. And at last, The sun began to fall, And my own self-sense of mortality Beckoned me To carry on. Ye