In That Vastness

I waited for you in that vastness.
“You don’t know what I want.”
“Why are you so sure?”
“Because I don’t know what I want.”

Hear me beckoning Babylon
black dawn after black dawn
I am silent wilderness surviving
beyond the boundaries of Paradise
Madonna hanging on the stakes I was awakened
By the memory of your crescent eyes like Cairo night moons
An immortal in the grottoes
In my being I witnessed the end of all things
Satan’s seraph-snake from the garden of Eden
desire that hydra hiding in the grasslands
Genesis I died for this divine magic disaster
I vanished into lightning
Madonna along the oblivion roads
these are the oblivions I chose—
a life in the hereafter earth
Yes, into that vastness I escaped
Yes, by that darkness I was enslaved
This is the veil of fire
This is how you die