Sleeplessness and Fever
The graves are innumerable, a sea
of no less, not fewer,
each wake held palpable from screens,
a scream at humanity.
They brandished deep, polished fangs, biting
until bones overtook blood.
Let them ramble to the open sky: their sins
will serve to multiply.
Hysterical, cursed, or wicked, their projections
will catch their phantom hearts.
Where they drove your tranquil to madness,
we will drive all to stillness —
they remain ignorant they injected venom
into a poisonous body.
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So rich & stirring! I love ‘let them ramble to the open sky’… ‘we will drive all to stillness’…
Thank you so much!
I engaged with the strong concise lines here, my favorite : “their projections/will catch their phantom hearts.”
Glad you liked it!