Turbid fabrics under dirt unfurling to a pith of black Perforating mantle, upward waft ensuing ash Portentous penumbra Dereliction to conform The kindling of all that was, immersed in brine In the aperture of tears, mounts a lurid knowing Of a lilt, so everpresent Of a heaven, so unbeknownst A sky of nebulae, slivered and molten A gleaming ebb of all effervescent joy A mare's tail, billowing soot Mankind cries its final yawn Misery upon a bastard earth To be pious is to perish To untether is to persist Widening fissure swallows the preponderance Radiant burst bestows acrid enlightenment Soul wind Interstice wanes