once
there were graceful birds
and precious bees
now the muddled sun
refuses to shine
all everyone
ever sees
are shadows
this bitter darkness
we're broken
at the knees
once
all around
this beleaguered globe
streamed pure water
dreamy rivers
clean enough
to drink
now everything
has faltered
and corrosive acid
dissolves
so many
homes and lives
while the frigid moon
and warrior Mars
speak loudly
asking giant Jupiter
and brilliant Venus
if they'll ever
leave us
if we discard
this earthly guise
so many faultless planets
supreme insects and perfect plants
naked under the irreverent sun
like impatient lovers
forever copulating
steadfast and disguised
joined together
at the edifying hip
as if
we were one
only plumb Pluto
knows the unholy truth
that unholy men
and holy men
have wholly failed us
we're living
under a leaking roof
that toll of greed
and folly pestilence
have groomed us
false deliverance
an able booming thought
we always seem to need
heed the reaper
god woke and said
detain all goodness
stop fouling your very bed
if a ghoulish wave occurs
that can simply
wash us
take away
our wretched sins
perhaps the etching sun
will blind us
keep us
wretched and ignorant
because
in the coming stead
the tearful end
is fearfully coming
but if
the eerie moon
should wake
bleary us
if geared up Mars
beams us
seemingly aboard
the teary world
will certainly
take us
to fiery hell
and back
all this trouble
trying discord
for the wave
we are riding
is simply
truly lord
when we are
torn
from
the fluid womb
we simply
begin
to die
but if
we ride
a faultless
wave
faithfully perhaps
we'll truly
learn to fly
beyond
the austere moon
beyond
the magnetic stars
where blazing light
once
began
if lord light
has
its way
perhaps
we'll never
die

  

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