Proximities

To dream with such madness that they still imagine dreaming beyond those walls, those armored guards who mock their trespass, but nearness to death brings a wisdom that looks like derangement to those cloaked in comfort, and these nearer know best how to see true danger, long known to swaddle its murderous intent in the softest of fabrics, the lush hides of eaten lambs. Still at their songs, to carry the road on their shoulders until it leads back to the beginning of that dream. Nearer, they sing, these mad marchers in sacred song. Nearer.