Vancouverite Metropolitan Hellscape, part 1 of 5
(prelude)
the buzzing of the evening insects
presage evil !
here are black wolves ! here are ghosts and fiends
and here are blackest of demons !
and black be the murk tonight with devils !
be forewarned ! and be accursed...
you, who set eye on these
perilous passages and venomous verses :
you have no idea
how dark, complex,
cynical and hopeless
this all can get
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Twilight has its way, come Night :
come, cloudings of bloodsucking bat !
come, sleep to the toddlers and calm to the dogs at guard;
come respite to the dwellers of the parks and the streets
come, peace below these stars :
the paperboy delivers his papers,
the planet spins its distance,
the cat kills its rats
and the rapist has his victims :
the youngster drugs himself to death
first thing out of rehab
and the girl is sold by the person
she thought she could trust the most
Tranq abusers hide and disappear
like roaches at the break of morning
into the ruins and cellars and destitute housings
scarabs hiss the songs of pestilence and dirty needle :
wailing banshees of despondency
psychotic on the corner of a street
screaming their anguish to the lot of the world :
unprocessed traumas left to die on the bottom of the needle ocean
an unwanted nuisance child
born from a night of desperation
is abandoned by a crack-fiend mother
rotten to her spiritual core :
tragic, suffered, broken, yes - but guilty :
God may have mercy on this demon but i can not !
and such are the realities
of the absolute form of existentialism
whose principles govern this world and its human enterprise...
impossible moral equations
float in the Night's aether
as all moral philosophies come to die
at this graveyard of God :
unfathomable narcotic abyss...
no hope escapes
the black hole
no light escapes
the intravenous event horizon
gloomy visions of destitute social ruin
greet the traveler beyond the threshold :
be forewarned ! traverse at your own peril
you have no idea
how dark, complex,
cynical and hopeless
this all can get...
Copyright © E. R. Ryttersson | Year Posted 2024
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