(Sentinel) In the collapsing
Jaundiced nova
I perceived
For the first time
A trillion entrances
A trillion exits
All sacred euphonies
Of chemical consequence
I was somnambulant
I caught the gust of
Matters dark antithesis
And charted courses
I watched worlds torn,
Stars extend infernal arms
And hollow mouths devour
Galactic calories
I found this orb
Aqua marine entrancing
Fell deeply in love
With the paradigm of life
To my horror
Those dealt its hand
Seemed wholly devoted
To its demise
This gift I prized
To know it was harboured
Amongst diminished forms
Whose love was death
I was Enkidu
Made of lifeless clay
I swayed Gilgamesh
Of arrogance
I broached conversations
With hirsute philosophers
In Athenian corridors
For want of their reasoning
To glean a notion of regret
Yet I saw through epidermis
Glimpsed the craving
Of lustful supplication
I sought Alexandria
Its scrolls held scrawled apology
I scoured millennia
Did not find my quarry
The mewling Christ
No longer an only child
As prophet moulds are rendered
And problem siblings cast
With reckless abandon
You decreed usefulness of skin
Reductive anatomy
Diminished to function
Unable to harbour life yourself
Jealous you built ovarian prisons
You manufactured gods
To relinquish your blame
Raised forests to burn
Ancestral graves
Enslaved species into
Theatres of immolation
In the basement
Of a tenement house
Bodies interned under floors
In their blood he is risen
In his eyes I have seen
The highest possible bliss
Feverish lucidity
A joy so complete
It is in his direful acts
He prized nectar from the gods
He washed in ichor endorphines
Orgasmic flood
Congratulations
Through sodden holes he has dug
In torsos he has reached
A non corporeal state
For heavens sake alone
He carved a doorway
In the disemboweled
And found the righteous path