Modern Gloom
They're making the world dirty.
When the first breaths were taken
the world was rich with rapturous life;
yet the great slow project of civilisation
has dulled the sense of heaven on earth,
slipping the humans into the mind's sleep.
Their dreams are not peaceful.
There's a blissful cosmos bursting above their heads
while with spirits darkened
they stumble about in their modern gloom.
The places of heaven on earth are dying.
With their factories and machines and lurid dreams
the humans are squashing their souls into strange shapes
unnatural and obscene.
Heaven's revenge will come.
Like children left alone who start hurting each other
the humans are unmindful of their crimes,
yet when those in heaven who wait return
they will regret these dark dirty times.
DH ([email protected])