abandon

abandon

As published in Soundbyte on January 9, 2019.

 

 

ambient echoes

eclipse the dreamscape

with the chiliad murmurs

of a cold spectre

spelling its ominous wrath

in lion-tongued vapours;

writhing,

whispering,

withering,

the old winds

disperse their deadening essence,

entombing humanity’s foliate soul

within the greying silence of grisly eternity.

 

no celestial song

mourns the dull passage

of these stirless creatures,

panged by their stark bondage;

no watchful spirit

breaks into ired being

before their holocaust,

their dead reckoning.

 

only in the forgetting—

that sun-blind forgetting amidst the desert—

can the last, fallen gods

walk the waking worlds

on the back of that old, coiling serpent.