Yashoda

That which would temper your soul              which would keep u, sustain u, is That which THEY* surmise is unfit 2 tell u It is anathema It is ruin (2 the Enemies of Man) It is THEIR Dharmakshetra It is THEIR Palace at Babylon            THEIR Flash o’ Reckoning            THEIR Unmitigated Doom It is […]

Elpis

The best Lack more than conviction The best Lack all hope & discernment How has it come 2 this? How is it that we are so content 2 sidestep rotting corpses & wallow en shit? © The Herder 20Nineteen

Arose

En this post-modern age Of the Iron Clockwork Of the social, political charade Of the heart coarsen’d by hate The contraction of man’s most degenerate impulse Is a grievous, involuntary response Post-modern man, He works so hard 2 be a destroyer of all-things That happen 2 reside outside his experience, Beyond the reach of his […]

The Dawn

A crack en the veneer, We so carefully crafted, Reveals a wasteland once hidden Behind the ramparts of our vanity’s shame A wasteland where We are neither kind Nor generous 2 ourselves A wasteland where Brutes dig en their heels and Shadows dwell And the only Hell Is the Hell we make! {Two-Beat Pause} A […]

Love (20Seventeen)

From ev’rything u read And ev’rything u see It is easy 4 one 2 reason That Love is absent That Love is on the run From Anger, Pride, and Fear That Love has abandoned us (2 a dire Fate, a loveless State) And her daughters, Mercy and Grace, are not here But lo, a jug […]