Destructosynthesis

by DANIEL RUTLEDGE

DESTRUCTOSYNTHESIS

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2......i4......will6......make8......your10.....earth12.....shake14.....destroy16.....all18.....that20.....we22.....have24.....built26.....here

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mercyhow strong is the seai will sit tightlyhonestlyi’ve still got fight in mebut this treadingthrough the watershas burnt me outwhat do i do now

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i am the immovable objectthe unclimbable mountainsteer clear of the road ahead my cascade will stop you in your tracksthere has to be glory at the topof this struggle we’ve had to scalethe air must be golden therebreathe exhale inhale

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i have not come to serve like most of youi have come to infiltrate this system that does not workif that means tearing down its foundation then so be itdon’t ask me how i can be so cruel for i’ve been rebuilding for days nowtaking brick for brick out of the pile you’ve madeto make them into a monumentsomething for others to hold on tosomething to remind them whats at stakesomething for those looking to relate

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i’ve seen what you hold so highthis cherished structure of idealsbut it is time to let it fallshatterlet the pieces explode across the floor like the fruition of a starfor those fragments aren’t who you are but rather who you werescatterpick them up and charge them into the next valuable object or finally take on what your goal isid choose the latter

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if i knew what i know nowid make sure to burn this townif i knew what i know nowid burnthis town has gone to what i thought it woulda shit hole on earth full of children misunderstoodi understand now how important it was to leaveeveryone everything in order to live again

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i will make your earth shakea deafening tone that will shiftyour weighti will be a crater try and clear the wreckagethat i made in the wakeof the route i tookeffecting all the livesi’ve shook

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i’ve seen what you like to destroywhen things go sourbut let me tell you thisthere is nothing about how your planet sitsthat is going to comfort youfor it is always in the rotationswaying around and aroundin the effects of gravitytides understand thiswhy can’t we understand thisinstead of being left in confusion and hateas the ground beneath you shifts

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i am an aparition i am the lone wolf amidst the change to his foresti saw what had to happenso i hid within the snowin order to growi’ve since then wrote off all the faces that were once so dearonce so neardefining them as ghostsdefining me as a ghost

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its kinda sadthe way that you present yourselfand the pain you bring there’s evidence in your faceof that wretched placethe hell inside your headis killing your surfacei understand your hurtbut don’t let that destroy your worthi know things won’t ever be the way they were back thenfor you and they are gone nowbut for heavens sakedon’t throw yourself away

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fading in and outof everything we knewgetting rid of all the who’swho’ve grown upand grew out of youcome back to consciousness dearyou can’t just leavewithout a wordvanish without the truthwithout leaving any context clues

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its just such a depressing sightwatching all these stars implodingscattering their particles amongst the universe to be lost and forgottenin the sea of what was so leavei know exactly how this goesi am telling you nowi will vanish i have to goinstead of spilling my guts out

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this empire we builtit changed the path i tookbut you are the king and i am the rook i have witnessed my fellow brothers go downdrownedunder your controlwe don’t have any saynothing matters nothing staysthe whole world sways

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things are changing like the hands of a clock always in motion everything comes full circlelike the circle of life and deathof destruction and rebirththis is how life goesand as tragic as change may beit also births what is so great about realityan honest scope on happiness and what hurtsfor how can you love someone so much without knowing the cost of their absensedrift among nameless cities until one holds you hostageuntil you have that grip on something so dearthat it is the only thing you want to hold neararen’t we all afraid of what we can’t controlbecause the good things don’t always staybut neither does the painso take on experiences of worthto perservere in the last seconds until wedestroy all that we have built here

for the roots that planted me here and gave me the direction to reach for the galaxies

written & illustrated by DANIEL RUTLEDGE

in association with HOODLUM

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