Best Placesdeath Poems
Word has reached
A distant planet out their
Semaj, this ancient Celt
In ancestral despair
His droid Etto
Has bulletins relayed
The last human on earth
In final death display
Civilisation as he knew it
Has gasped its last breath
For the butterfly winged angels
Has left earth in death
For once again their desire
To gain the orb of life
Has left the world as he knows it
In death dying decaying strife
For weeks he travels
To a world he once knew
In ancestral pilgrimage
Answers he pursues
He arrives through earths atmosphere
Human eyes will never see
He lands near Loch Torridon
Kingdom of the King Kane family
Whats left of his village
Bodies drained of their life
Children and the elderly
Man and his wife
For the very last time
He views his ancestral surround
For on these peat laden glens
Black Roses abound
Alba, his country
In death dying decay
As he speeds through its glens
Black Roses display
He reaches the lowlands
And its riches of soil
But nothing else grows
Black Roses spoil
Moments later
There is the sound of a sonic boom
Black clouds above separate
Lights appear through the gloom
There is no greater darkness now than the desert sun,
…no sorer sight for her mournful eyes than this,
An apocalyptic jumble of craters and rippling dunes,
The corpses of skyscrapers, the fetuses of malls,
All of them half-buried by the shifting sands…
It speaks to her of Hell, this yellow-ochre world,
Of demons and death and slow decay
It whispers in her ear, a death rattle, a death knell,
Until she shudders and retreats into her earphones,
Into those two slender cords that are her only escape…
Obedient the music rises, drums in her ears,
Rumbling like the thunder of the distant sea she misses,
It is a grateful reprieve…
And yet nothing can drown out the visions she sees,
No matter how much she wishes her eyes sewn shut, no matter
How she squints and peers, searching for beauty, a scrap of it,
A morsel of loveliness for her starving soul amidst this abyss,
These devouring dunes of ugly marching doom dominate,
Oppress, they loom over her like titans, ready to collapse in a wave
Of golden fire and swallow her whole, until she can see the sky no more…