Act Alive

Deep in the thicket
A truculent murder ensues.
Hemorrhaging ideas;
Suffocated thinking;
Creative surrender
 
The victim lived
a moribund existence,
a series of insouciant performances  
opulent stages, inimical audiences
the same vacuous script in perpetuity.
Life without an apogee
 
You experience death twice:
The first is 
corporal
The second 
More painful self-inflicted death,
Is in the mind

  • Moribund – “near death” ; being in a state of dying; approaching death; in a state of inactivity/obsolescence
  • Opulence – wealth/affluence, abundance 
  • Vacuous – emptied of or lacking content; having or showing lack of thought or intelligence; mindless; devoid of serious occupation
  • Insouciant – “carefree”; lighthearted unconcern; nonchalance
  • Inimical – tending to obstruct/harm; unfriendly, hostile
  • Truculent – eager/quick to argue/fight 
  • Apogee – highest point in development of something; climax/culmination of something