‘Mirror rotting fruit’

I am fascinated by rotten things

evolving more than living

as we dwindle to wrinkles

and befriend gravity

the rotten things are

death or birthing canals

of maggots and stench

Rotting is the sacred process

Of respected steady change

An apple takes a week

yet human rot lusts much less

over signs of recognition

hidden in the darkest places

for from it, the end begins

long before death by

rotten heart, rotten mind

see how the rotten fruit

lets decay become gift

become new