innocence

standing ovation
spinning sensation
twelve million faces
black market aces

rivers flow with blood
far and wide
pleas and cries
please let me die

release me from
endless plight
endless spite
endless night

relentless
axiom
crumbling
babeldom

speechless
chameleon
breathing
new Babylon

con fusion
God’s illusion
human substitution
route retribution

perpetual cycle
wrong versus right
compulsion to fight
blind sight

zero insight
absent hindsight
kiss your child
good night

that which is man,
back to where it began:
a mother kisses her skeleton baby goodbye
and buries him in the sand