III — Mausoleum of Ghosts

III.I
(Grievous Meditation)

Advancing amidst
apotheosized lupine morals,
man’s onerous pith -
tumuli shadowing
cachinnated hedonism,
slaughter bathed rosette :

Anima dominates voltaic,
space mined merciless -
pixels sense knows no pantheism,
others regarded null; tetrahedral
constraints a bulwark of bastille—
Ah, to be human!

So blossom your zoetrope
of human progress, ravenous
& illusory, a merry-go-round,
light tarnished, quavering muffled screams;
abysmal as the graves already dug—
Spirits trapped asunder soil of death,
ethos trapped within cage of life—
Between chasms, piled bodies of the ages,
civilization luminesces our idiocy.

Nature flagrant in colluding
with victors of bestial rapture,
a restless evolution &
macabre self selection -
conjuring requiem nekyia,
for prophecy foretold :

III.II
(Hell On Earth)

Emerged from miasmic crusade,
a trampled horizon, mangled shapes
discern mounds of skeletal cinder,
forever onyx; virtue sliced, abused,
lungs wheezing corrupted, bilious air,
once human morphed less than -
the ghost of war unrepentant;
spiking skulls grotesque,
singular beads of infinite pools
gilded homicidal, praetorian
to ignored truth—
Apocalypse unveiled:

Orpheus’ plight resurrected—
Di Inferi exhumed earthly
in flaming chariots impression;
does humanity see it’s evil?
Is truth beyond mimesis,
or is theatre all we know?—
Senses ruminate joining
melancholic coup de grâce
ere welkin’s eternal perish.

Dreaded swarms of fatal spires
cascade mortal structures gothic,
contaminating souls effluvial,
bones of life wretched, spared none -
pestilence grande seeps every pore of senses,
essentia complete as shattered vase:

Eyes infused melanoid, viewing
monochrome, vision decayed to that of dog;
touch feels palpitations of the heart stillborn,
lanced occult; taste savors rancorous experience
against will, culture’s youthful eudemonia
seduced decadent, trial by combat
in arena of a thousand pining knives;
smell inhales cinereal ambience
of melting minds, the self dissipated Brutus;
ears hear the sages foolish lament
in fin, drowning memories of
loving voices, each a sole vigil now snuffed,
for no prayers are answered here:
Humanism’s crucifix conjoined to
those effortlessly flung—
The tarpeian rock tremors
to the terror that shakes the Earth.

—

The omnipotent informs Dante:
We shoulder this blame -
folding shutters of vibrant stars,
particles suspended in motion,
leaving a vacuous, effete canvas
of nothing, a black hole with no
visitors, acheron perpetua—
Universal hope ceased.