Lethargy

An immemorial crowd creeps

Out of abyssal caverns

Crippled sleepers with eunuch’s heads

Stagger in the rays of dim lustres

Monstrous skulls exhale numbing vapour from toothless jaws

Their hollow eye caves focus glistening celestial spires

Where children laugh and birds sing

Conceive this gleaming light

Blindfolded I sense its sway

Led astray to this rotten earth

Where hundreds lie in lethargy