Somnambulant - Anopheli

Jaundiced nova

I perceived

for the first time

a trillion entrances

a trillion exits

all sacred euphonies

of chemical consequence

I was somnambulant

I caught the gust of

matters dark antithesis

and charted courses

I watched worlds torn,

stars extend infernal arms

and hollow mouths devour

galactic calories

I found this orb

aqua marine entrancing

fell deeply in love

with the paradigm of life

to my horror

those dealt its hand

seemed wholly devoted

to its demise

this gift I prized

to know it was harboured

amongst diminished forms

whose love was death

I was Enkidu

made of lifeless clay

I swayed Gilgamesh

of arrogance

I broached conversations

with hirsute philosophers

in Athenian corridors

for want of their reasoning

to glean a notion of regret

yet I saw through epidermis

glimpsed the craving

of lustful supplication

I sought Alexandria

its scrolls held scrawled apology

I scoured millennia

did not find my quarry

the mewling Christ

no longer an only child

as prophet moulds are rendered

and problem siblings cast

with reckless abandon

you decreed usefulness of skin

reductive anatomy

diminished to function

unable to harbour life yourself

jealous you built ovarian prisons

you manufactured gods

to relinquish your blame

raised forests to burn

ancestral graves

enslaved species into

theatres of immolation

In the basement

of a tenement house

bodies interned under floors

in their blood he is risen

In his eyes I have seen

the highest possible bliss

feverish lucidity

a joy so complete

It is in his direful acts

he prized nectar from the gods

he washed in ichor endorphines

Orgasmic flood

congratulations

through sodden holes he has dug

in torsos he has reached

a non corporeal state

for heavens sake alone

he carved a doorway

in the disemboweled

and found the righteous path