# Black Dog Becoming

Author: Dakaar
Tags: Poetry

Freeform poetry from the introspective collection, Black Dog, that runs with a folkloric figure that is often associated with misfortune and used as a metaphor for depression. Black Dog looks at this figure and gives him a voice, letting him bark back at a society that's already made up its mind about him.

He’s a timelapse 

 

immobile

 

a guardian statue

 

enthroned in his own skull

 

waiting for the flickering world

 

to overgrow him.

 

They told him he had to walk on

 

come to heel

 

or he’d be left behind,

 

but here in a temple of bones

 

the osteomantic remnants

 

of every Dog that walked ahead of him

 

he’s never felt more welcome.

 

He feels them underfoot

 

the upcycled dead

 

a transcendent creep

 

a wired neuropathy

 

a revolving door

 

to push.

 

He shrugs off his pelt

 

and sloughs away flesh

 

and lets the moss crawl in

 

to soothe his bare bones.

 

He will wait here, and let the hollows of his eyes spill over

 

exhale his held breath

 

his mouthful of dust

 

and let the veil tear.

 

He doesn’t know if it’s possible

 

to kill with meaning

 

but he knows with a certainty

 

decay exists

 

as an extant form

 

of life.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/eRbRbYMe
Part of the series Black Dog
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