Ineffable realms
Shot serene into a stream of words
Or a stream of blood
And carried away
With euphoric decay
Beyond the gates of horn and ivory
Flowing reflections of fields of green
Ghostly fumes whisper soft
Mysteries
That every open eye betrays
But those God-mad souls
Drunk on spirits of divine
Absorption
And beatific visions
Their heaven frozen
Like those tired songs of angels
Locked in endless praise
In the garden of death
Those images bloom
With unbalanced rapture
And from unbearable sorrow
Harvested
As sorrow feeds on itself with
Allostatic overload
Doomed to worship death
For it’s greatness devours
Everything
Absorb instead eternal rest
Like the glow against
Late autumn sky
Burning in it’s golden glory
Ascending cinders
To Elysium
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