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The Eternal War

The fragility found me one shimmering eve 
I was trapped trapped 
I saw those Beverly Hills Palm trees witnessing me 
The eternal war 
Let them burn 
Let them burn 
A conflagration that I started
And I wanted it burning hot 
Fires from heavens edges 
I wanted a break from the circumstances 
Then that summer eve said hello to me 
That eternal war Being 
It was despair wasn't it 
I was warned about being that destiny that remembered my request for salvation 
I was in the sweltering yellows of summer 
The cars racing on residential streets 
I pretended the spotlights for Independence Day were for me
And there was I 
Being that destiny
I feared it needed me to grieve
Even the homes had more than me
I was an isolated angel
Living on the rims of minutes like a mariner of Time
Excellence would have killed us anyway 
My life is this nothingness-are you kidding? I grieved I grieved 
Desire that overthrew nations laying waste to me 
It doesn't matter we were guaranteed doom 
And our lives would be over soon 
I'd make no vigil for dusks 
They had the rest of us anyway 
And I them
Who could survive the sentencing
The eternal war it was on  
I don’t think I ever thought my life would be so much nothingness
I'd make no vigil for dusks 
We were guaranteed freedom but it was a whirlpool of light 
Arcade of the angels
And I was the game they were playing 
The Great War 
They wouldn't learn
Summer eves sentencing me  
The sky was an inverted forge 
And I wanted
More of creation 
I prayed it was a feverish creation 
Because I was sure it would end me 
Demon of Frankenstein 
I wanted out of my chains 
The sky was an inverted forge 
And I wanted more of creation 
The gulfs of dream 
Desecrated me 
I was lost in other dimensions 
Hollowed like purgatories of light 
Desolation in the sky
Wreckage in torrents 
I could have sworn 
God was a monolith 
That we erected 
Divinity, was it a delirium?
I mean the odyssey was weird 
I was on embankments of freedom 
And I reasoned 
The wingbeats were angels and not demons 
Wreckage in torrents 
I could have sworn that 
God was a forge I invented 
Like Frankenstein 
I learned to love my chains 
They resurrected me 
I was a ruined ornament of earth 
I reasoned those wingbeats weren't sentencings
Unreadable like a rune
We would all be dead soon 
And I reasoned 
Disappearing into a creek 
Was a nice end 
Sifting through the night 
Summoned like a starling 
To the breeding grounds 
And I witnessed 
The adamantine gown of the universe 
Like an inverted angel 
I was in a lattice dreaming 
I feared that rhizome was witnessing me  
Fracturing was a grace to me
An heirloom in my possession 
I couldn't stand it 
I panicked I panicked 
The wager the wager
Sifting through night
I was in the god-grotto with a wager in my possession 
Passage through summer seas 
Passage through the empire winds  
My fragility like a sacrificial beast 
I took shore roads to redemption 
A hostage in the hour of the goblin
In imitation of fire I died I died 
There were avenues of summer seas
Releasing me into crystalline 
I was a sacrificial beast of the winds 
Like a monolith of light 
Prometheus of the dark grasses
Brandishing blades in the first firelights 
Bewildered in sleepless eternities 
I found shore roads to redemption 
Life like an alchemical seal 
I was destroying things for creation 
It was a sentencing of light
And I was wise to it 
Washing me into oblivion
Alchemy like a temple of Pan 
I wasted light
And I panicked 
The eternal war
I was an automata of earth 
Being that existence 
Was it intelligence 
I wanted out like a summer thundercloud 
I lifted into vacancies 
That released me into summer eves 
Immortality is not for me
Immortality is not for me 
Existence was an exquisite sentence to me 
Killing your self for art is survival too
Light ages like lilies of the Nile
I wanted the light ages killing me like desire  
And I witnessed the decay of my reason
In the hour of the goblin king
The light ages feared me 
The eternal war was on 
And I was the chief 

Friday 07.04.25
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