[The 9J Education Blog] Poetry: Words Started This Apocalypse.

[9education Authors]

WORDS STARTED THIS APOCALYPSE

infantile selfishness & an insatiable curiosity

caused the fall of man

lame monkeys, they fall to the same vices

Words foretold of the apocalypse

but ears were stoppered with wax & self conceit

not when embalmers painted the pyramids

and cast golden runes as odes to the slain

Heads swung away from the gates of Ashteroth

and her beasts of fantasy & bas-relief

they carried more fearsome monsters within

they engorged themselves with delphic prophecies

subsumed its delirious smoke & exhaled it unheeded

Olympus fell, with it Greece and Rome

still they sat, stone hearted

Red and Black and Saffron Skin

soiled by the Englishman's invasion

the warning and wards of forebears

forsaken for lures of looking glass & tinder & shell

the announcer's anguished commentary

dirge for fireworks abloom from the Challenger

still Orwell's '84 gathers dust on shelf

all words did was quicken the tragedy

rouse the stampede off the cliff

Words started this apocalypse

quips uttered in ear shot

like a measure set in quicksand

stones in trough rising thoughts to the surface

Words foretold this apocalypse

prophecies in the guise of passing observation

the depths to which they resonate underestimated

jagged shards transmuted from China once whole

Simmering that leaves a charred, black heart

gashes on thigh and arm dripping into the dark

vicious slurs slung thoughtlessly at an easy target

the incendiary that lights the hidden charge

horror is the aftermath

as the implosion spreads outward

consuming others in this final act of immolation

hindsight is glaring on his scarred flesh

and journals scrawled over with apathy

Words started this apocalypse

they conceived and nurtured it

encouraged and then made jest of it

sheltered it in pretty rhetoric until it festered

and when it grew rotten, urged it to its death

and words will analyse it

In startling detail will they immortalise it

and indifference will be the grave under which it's buried.

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Posted By 9education Authors to The 9J Education Blog on 4/06/2015 11:00:00 am