Spitting Of The Edge Of The World

📌I wrote this poem inspired by the song "Spitting Off the Edge of the World" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

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Spitting Off the Edge of the World

Standing on the ledge where the earth unravels,

a horizon bruised with fire and ash.

The wind howls secrets no one listens to,

ghosts of the fallen wrapped in its grasp.

I spit into the void, a defiance, a prayer,

a piece of me breaking, dissolving midair.

The stars watch, unblinking, cold as glass,

as cities drown in echoes of the past.

Footsteps carved in dust and ruin,

names forgotten before they’re spoken.

We were here—weren’t we?

Or were we always meant to be broken?

The sea rises like a swallowed scream,

devouring the bones of the dreamers.

They built towers to touch salvation,

but even heaven has its deceivers.

I spit into the abyss, into time itself,

a testament of anger, of sorrow, of fight.

For even at the world’s bitter ending,

I refuse to go quiet into the night.

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