an absence of view

white......
the blistering absence
of life
or anything resembling
a wholesale buffet of joy,
the sounds permeating
this void of
confounded energies
rip back and yonder
cross shallow streams
of numbness,
the horizon blurred,
wavy and dusted
with vapored
and shimmering mirages
of machinations
rife with the echoed thunder
built upon scrapped
and abandoned
arterial cobblestones

the paths lead
up and beneath
the towering
snow capped blunders
of wars fought
and lives lost
upon the arced rainbows
of opinionated
mounts....

did you ever wonder
why those valiant shells
ran to their fates?

whole heartedly embraced
their warped and dented
destinies?

succumbed and relished
the cataclysmic
defaulted entry
into the wasted vista?

why for the sheer,
luminous glee of it....
why else would you skate across ice?