Decomposition: Organic and otherwise

The smell of your body
is tremendous and overwhelming
There has been an apocalypse
inside your broken vessel
and it has wrought
organic decomposition

Staring at my hands clasping yours
I saw our entire dreary future
as a mutilated attempt
at a shining, unified celestial body
Mercifully interrupted

Staring at your broken body
I internalize your stillness
and see how man ends
and how man
forever continues
in spite of his
vivid, terrestrial
longing for
extermination