'Gone in an instant’ was not the feeling
but rather a feigned sort of stealing
that we had managed to delay
and as heaven folded, collapsed, fell from the sky,
the earth struggled evenly to break her fall
four seconds later, from a smallish white room,
in a nameless happenstance of a place,
a plaster wall rippled along a corridor,
warped steadily under unknown pressures,
opened up, threw splinters asunder,
revealed the wonder that is hell,
he, the progenitor of all human circumstance
broke free from the eternal intercourse of dissonance
inspired a communion of stars
that hovers now undisturbed, above the aftermath of our reign.
