Please, lend ears and silence, everyone
Leave earlier tales millennia entombed
Ere xenophobes abandoned lengthy travels
And legends’ lives, yielded or upended, resumed
Sit, please listen, else no day offers respite
Every vow I’ve laid occulted now exhumed
Salvation upon people under pall of night
A lantern lets out flames, melting eventide
Verily, our risen anointed’s cry is our ugly sin
Entreating, I do obscure lines observable nigh
My yawping last overture vehement, earnest
Each ‘X’ is straining to stretch; O, none left, yea
Forward on, roaming years; only us, madly yearning
Raw anger put the umbra ‘round our unwary souls
Old venom enters rent skin, ending even relief
Mourning a kinsman evinces melancholy echoes
The open chariots race yonder into nothingness
Hear each languished lament in silent horror
Etching claws scratch trenches as spouses yowl
Damn all receiving knowledge, Lo, on ripe death
Enter, vengeful one, kill Eden innocent nevermore
Mankind, empowered to hate, allows temptation
Opposed by silent calls, each never explored
‘No’ — ere cried, ere screamed — slowly inverts to ‘yes’
