The Aftermath

I reflected the starlight graves
Madonna the archivist of midnights
The darkness commanded me to extinction
Caesura in the darkness march
I was a season of catastrophe
And then that catastrophe marched towards me
The darkness commanded me to completion
neither can I be nor can I be extinction
it’s too late—there are no paths
scars on the face of the earth
I followed the arching starlight
The darkness gave and gave appetite
weighed down by freedom’s gravity
I feared my dark adversary
Apocalypse I was the aftermath
The darkness has appetites
Raiment of flesh it dressed like me
Suffocation by ghost moons in October
I tried to hide from your abyss eyes
Redeem me to the meadowlands
Traveler of the everlasting
I was a vanishing
Yes I was shattered again
Lazarus dawn awakening
I confess: there were teeth in my flesh
The darkness has success
I was under its command
This was holiness
The ruse the ruse of substanceless flesh
Yes the darkness had holiness
There were teeth in my flesh
Yes I called it success
Virgin milk of the Madonna
Like lightning, outlast the thunder
Covenant with Lazarus dawn
Deliver me from life's tributaries
I was a vanishing
Driving myself into disaster after disaster
I chased after the abyss
God was inexplicably busy with more urgent furnaces
Not with me, burning in dusk
I surrendered—
Like lightning outlasting the thunder
Anchored to Lazarus dawn
Abyss of Elysium
Yes I abandoned reason
The darkness reminded me that desire had appetite
Yes I was in command
Desire reminded me that
The darkness had appetite
Like the abyss
Deliver me from life's tributaries
Ruse of the flesh
It was rude of the flesh
I plead the right to insanity
The light abandoned me
There was freedom in flesh
Finding holiness
Like lightning, outlast the thunder
My covenant with rising Lazarus dawn
Command me to be gone
Deeper well of Thor, Oblivion
I dreamed of freedom
Survival in the furnace
Burning has holiness
Deliver me from life
The darkness raiment
Like a burial shroud
That darkness has appetites
Lazarus dawn, I was awakening
The darkness decomposed me into fragments
Yes I was a shattering
The holiness of disillusionment
I was a season summer went through dreaming
Burning pastures, I surrendered
Deliver me I was vanishing
In life's tributaries
Desire the wings and flame
I was commanding
Like a divine thing
The darkness has appetites
I tried to hide my desire
But it rose with sunrise
From the darkness fragility
Deliverance to life
The guidance
To outlast like lightning after thunder
Like lightning the sunrise in your abyss eyes
Command me ageless dawn
Abyss of Elysium
Where the fear treading angels tried to die
The sun’s reunion with the rose fingered horizon
Madonna the immortal
The bleeding horizons left their screams in me
Rising light, deliver me
Yes I grieved
The darkness needed me
Welcome to the vale fallen one
This is the mirror of fire
This is how you die
I commanded the abyss
I said: witness me
Shattering in the stars panorama
Battlefield of eternal terrors
The light euthanized me
Abyss of elysium
I burned with the Lucifer Sun for a season
I was through and through
with dreaming of you
Tripartite God like hell’s burning tongues
I was breeding the fragility
Burning dusk breeding fire
The skies crackling with lightning
A punishment of light
Spare me autumn
Wrath the ornament of creation
Abyss of Elysium
You were my totality
Wounded the Sun sinks into fire
Daily the rose horizon reunion
Reminded me of how I needed you
Paradise the darkness grandeur
Again the dream of forgetting
Memory desiring oblivion
Abyss of Elysium
I was the sunrise breeding fire
I vowed to the oracle of storms
That the chaos would be born
The fragility 
Beasts crawling in the midnight
The darkness I survived 
I turned pyrite into gold like Rumpelstiltskin in flaming straw
The darkness came in waves as a tsunami and I was complete
I surrendered to sunrise 
Greed the appetite 
Griefs I abdicate I abdicate 
Every sunrise after the brief fields of midnight 
You were a winged seraph
Like a fever that was rising 
The darkness I was surviving 
Rising dream the nightmares
You herald the abyss 
Surely it was Hades (and not you)
That kept me here captive in the midnights
Savior and sentencer 
Like a lily in the water graves of Ophelia 
I thought sinking was freedom from rising 
And I buried myself before sunrise 
Lachrymose dawn 
Freedom was a mirage 
and it vanished into mist
and I was gone
I was gone 
Captive in fields of midnight
The Majesty!
Midnights bearing tempests
Dark dandelion seeds, the world was breeding greed 
I wore grief as a diadem 
Black gales arriving with the nights bearing tempests, yes 
Invention of the darkness that held me as prisoner
But I was the alchemist of sunlight 
Starless like the scarred Madonna 
Lachyrmose lilies in Ophelia’s water graves
The wild majesties were after me yes indeed 
And I was gone I was gone 
My savior sentenced me to freedom 
Mausoleum of the ages 
The wasteland! 
And I made it my grave
These were the failures of silent spring 
I was worshipping at the altar of midnights 
Black agate roads in my pearled eyes yes an oblivion rose 
The catastrophe 
We were anchored to storms 
All the days were graves
I walked alone in alleyways 
Through the storms 
Incarcerated in the Babylon days
I was dreaming 
And I was gone I was gone 
Carceral days, I was the darkness decomposed 
Abyss of Babylon 
The feasts! Of stars 
I mean the carnage
The carnage!
Everywhere was wasteland 
I rose with the storms 
The shadows careening into darkness 
It wasn't want but need
I desired 
Like an apparition I was shivering to the afterlife as firelight 
all the carceral days were graves I walked alone in alleyways
The awakening: I am the darkness decomposed 
I saw my past selves
And they were sentences I chose