Deus

Grief, wonder, fear, rage, ecstasy I'd known

But humans gave me loathing, new, though rank.

They came, they spread, refining all the modes

Of bully, whine, and glut to subtlety,

Mad-gorged on every other thing they met,

Things that they'd neither earned, nor won, nor made,

And then gorged on each other, nauseous.

Excreting, spewing acid-bilious clots,

They mewled pretentiously of wrong to me,

Who, by devoted care, had justice fused

Into each, every, single minute quark.

At last, the swollen vileness burst.

I wrenched away and thus reversed...

Time.

The forests shrunk and screaming fauna youthed,

Leapt into wailing mothers, youthing still.

The rivers ran clean, purer, on uphill

To sparkling streamlets, as each tiny rill

Was finely sponged by thirsting sod and earth.

Green shadowed turf then trembled, shook, and shot

The waves of crystal bullet rain to skies.

Clouds blackly swirled down slopes of thinning air

To shred above a heaving sea of froth.

Mass ocean shimmered light thus back in sheets,

Up t'ward a roaring, pulsing blue-white sun.

The starry avalanche geometrized,

And all a sudden Sun is swallowing

Earth, Neptune, Icarus, the moons, the rest....

So sun to sun to arced Andromeda,

Successions of unthought sensations reel,

Undoing meaning, racing toward The Word.

I groan and wring the last exertion forth,

And draw all into Singularity,

Then sink ... dull ... comatose, nay all but dead.

All this -- yea all! -- tomorrow morn was done

That Love may grant-be-granted one last run.