Fallen Angel

 

 














you challenged the emptying of heaven
(whose mouth spat out its stars
into a bloody, whipped vacuum)
and sculpted your dark energy
into a defiant fist, shaking photons
and soulful dimensions of fury

you were a god's great lesson

so offended was your only deity
through your lush garden he violated
you, an underworld, a parent
to brutalize your negative elements
and teach you marble obedience

a broken consequence, this avenged planetoid
and you, a dying, beaten shadow
your flame for war, extinguished
whose memories of chariots and wings and sunbeams
are reduced to these needles and spoons

~~~ R.W. Hurst ~~~


(poem and picture: http://www.electricityforum.com/poetry/fallen-angel.html )