Lying in wait like some brightly burning tyger of Blake
Yes I hesitated
Brazen flaming giants, antagonists to the deities
Suddenly I'm a teenager again
And this time things are going according to plan
It was a dream I had
Then I surrendered it
We've all been played
And it was a good game
Blooming roses in the fire-garden of God
And I sought—
It was desire on wings
Draining me like a vampire of the end times
We were frankly welcoming them
And I witnessed the end of the opium of existence
And I witnessed a new age like an anchoress of the cliffs
The reservoirs of ages were voided
I was free to sink in the summers appetites
Seasons of wanting and I panicked
Mortal abominations at the divine gates
And I reasoned—
The end of all things was a blessing
Marvelous stillness in the heavens basement
And I desired that it would kill me
Levitating like an angel of vengeance
I was stationed in Time’s abyssal halls
And I vanished— I vanished—
It was existence like a dreaming garment cloaking me
Existence like spring twilights in summertime
And I witnessed the summer infinities swallowing me
It was singing like desire to me
Existence like a sentencing spring from Tuck Everlasting
And I was outlasting the Idylls of The King
And I vanished— I vanished—
Into a season of being
Maybe I never wanted anything
I witnessed the end of all things
Like a grace for the exiled of the kingdom