Sovereign Self

And it was written

Across the forge of ambition

Dismembering the vision

And inversion of form

To make a scourge

Of past prosperities

Pure desires warped

In the crucible of deception

Bent to a numbing

Hiss

The whispered drone

Throughout the shrine

Submission in occlusion

Drunk on masculine virtue

Backs breaking to tend the fields

Just to turn and set them ablaze

Bent to a numbing

Hiss

The whispered drone

Throughout the shrine

Retreating into isolation

The revelatory darkness

Where true nature is revealed

And strength is found wanting

Embrace aesthetic rigidities

Adopt proscribed mores

Lay wreaths of blame

A desperate slip of guilt

Ever playing the mummer

Strutting on the stage of self

Seizing callous

Disregard

Assuming insensitive

Affectation

Revolted joys

Like foes in civil war

Like bosom friendships

To resentment sour'd

With rage envenomed

Against our peace

Desperate, restricting

Sallow

Pale and wan

Crushed from the

My waning regard

Reaching like a dying limb

A dead limb

Extending into insensate space

Still seeking the old friend

Through the rent in time

The one locked in the carapace

Of frustration and loathing

Bent to a numbing

Hiss

The whispered drone

Throughout the shrine

Bent to a numbing

Hiss

The whispered drone

Throughout the shrine