Killing Idols

the scapular of your anguish
wounds the insolent chest of your enlightenment with blood
a world in disenchantment cries its drunken hymns
but only jackals lick the nectar of these pains
because the night drives away the naive and innocent
and it is with the irreverence of the lost that we cry out loud
trying to defile every throne that rises against us
the time will come when we will immolate the new messiah in fire
placating the wrath of the raging oceans and their deities
the insurgent skies and their merciless stains
we'll bring back a forgotten golden age
and then we'll set all the new traps
to drain for the last time the voracity
of every idol that is eternalized
when we stagger weak across the earth
and we allow them to enslave us.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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Hankins Avatar
March 28, 2022 at 9:33 PM
Wow! Marco, this is incredibly fine writing, IMHO. Love the sharp images and the flow of the lines. The last three lines are especially powerful. Thanks for sharing.
Chies Avatar
March 29, 2022 at 6:49 AM
Eventually I like to write these more messianic texts, with subliminal messages that just touch something adjacent and that seems like a kind of ancient wisdom already lost....
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