04-01-2024, 09:31 PM
(blank verse)
Missiles fall to kiss the eyes of the earth
their crystal fires unchain the waiting time
to free our innocence of all untruths
but with the lies stripped and slain by the sky
the soul of innocence must flee and hide
into the desert’s tide of bone and wind.
There it wanders a landscape without sin
helpless to bless the pyramid sun’s change
from light giving god to a collapsed void.
But the underworld welcomes the lost
to its ice and darkness, welcomes the pure
to where liquid stone baptizes in slow
simple droplets not different from tears.
Missiles fall to kiss the eyes of the earth
their crystal fires unchain the waiting time
to free our innocence of all untruths
but with the lies stripped and slain by the sky
the soul of innocence must flee and hide
into the desert’s tide of bone and wind.
There it wanders a landscape without sin
helpless to bless the pyramid sun’s change
from light giving god to a collapsed void.
But the underworld welcomes the lost
to its ice and darkness, welcomes the pure
to where liquid stone baptizes in slow
simple droplets not different from tears.