Poetry: Derelict Taxonomies

[stuttermoan]

Title: Derelict Taxonomies
Pairings/Characters: Snape, Dumbledore
Ratings: G
Summary: "The law I deified believed itself to death."
Author's Notes: Thanks to Claire for the beta.


Derelict taxonomies
Things extinct or fading
Folding up their orders
Find a kin in me

(Slumping into dust
They shuffle their mistakes
Signing with their sighs
The odds of sorrows lost

Cryptic in my shade
I'm early-dressed to mourn
I've new regrets to forge
And distance to afford

I step fast to conceive
The sins they've never seen
For pains they've never named
I lean to feel the sting

As novel as I stray
Inventive in my vice
My blood is aged to rust
Archaic in its strain

And obsolete is faith
That casts itself aside
The law I deified
Believed itself to death)

Tortuous moralities
Codes that fail their causes
Killing off their saviors
Have found a fool in me

Comments

[nemesister.livejournal.com]

Again a wonderful poem btw! Its such a fitting description of their feelings.