By Christos Floratos
Some say the world
Will let out its last whimper
In a swirl of blaze and frost.
But I know better than some.
For I was young when I saw it come.
The lightning struck and struck,
And then some.
A week where it spiked
A month of humidity’s fight.
A year of reason’s most gallows.
A love child of melted ice and Australia’s burn
Against those olden-minds’ saying, most hollow:
“But it’s too chilli!”, would encourage a churn
Don’t you understand the cold?
The wrath of the blizzard is
just the warmth of hell
seeping through the oil-cracks in the earth
and condensing in the smog above.
The warning signs shocked you but
The tremors will rock you to
Your feet, your soles, your souls.
Waves of polyester swamp our beaches
And deep- beyond blue Mariana -are
remanets of Mickey, Cola and your groceries.
The old will give one more hazardous cough
and our world will be untold.
For
We’ve had our last summer
And Autumn’s killed its last tree.
Winter will be the mistress after the affair
And Spring will surely forget us.
After we are gone,
The worms will not remember their banquet on us
For even they will die soon after their feast and celebration.
Ash shall not be gentle reminders on the mantle
For we shall break down to our bare atoms.
For those preachers of old,
The Apocalypse Cometh
-not one of undead, technology or
some forsworn rapture –
But a carrion, inhibited by us.
A fever on the earth, calmed, cared and chilled by oil flames.
© Christos Floratos 2019
- Session 73 – Wolves of the Loft
- Session 72 – Take Me With You
- Session 71 – At What Cost
- Session 70 – The Ceaseless Nightmare
- Session 69 – What We’ve Become
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