The Beginning
The crazy piper plays dirges
on fallopian tubes.
Accompanied by unborn screams.
Displaced roots supplicate the skies,
while burrowing branches
seek relief from the burning moon.
Torrid winds carry messages
of rivers boiled dry,
sterile oceans now unseeded.
Proud cities mutate to pyres,
where the flames pirouette,
spiralling through returning rain.
The King/serf drives a rusting car
along corroding roads,
reaching for a destination.
He tracks the absconding darkness,
fleeing the waking sun
and its burnished toxic glances.
Desperation hastens him on,
while retreating shadows
delay the bright-eyed assassin.
He reaches the starving ocean.
Feeds it with his body.
Restarts the race with corruption.
The indifferent stars roll on,
time forcing new shapings,
The Ursae, Orion, The Cross.
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