Dies Irae

Oyez! Oyez!

This is a gala evening!

Veiled angels

Crowd the theatre

To see a play

Of hopes and fears

Motley mimes

Toss about the scene

Held up by therads

Sinking in the deep

Onstage

In a corner

Hidden behind myself

I hold my breath:

In the airless air

Shards of crushed rainbows

Fill my limbo

Placed somewhere

Between world and toys

"Do you want to play with me?"

In the soundtrack of my survival

The furious small hammers

Fully uprooted

From their key-shaped

Skeleton

Cruelly explore

Every cranial path

Always closer...

Always more painful!

The sharks' fin

Is sighting straight for me:

Creatures or spirits

I beg you!

Maybe it's the delirium

Of my morbid ratio

Os that voice that lies

Deep in my intimate self

To allow this swimming

Through the lymphs of victims

While dark reigns over

The sons of putrefaction!

Father of sons all deformed

That like a ghastly stream

Surge out

Through the rusted gates of time

- A deaf dumd eyeless throng

Laughing forever

But smiling no more

The god absent

Or still

"Haec verba audi: Vitam aeternam!"

Like the shaman

Who ingratiates himself

With the deity

Of the animal he hunts

Seeking possession

With the spirit of the beast:

So the innocents

Pervaded with the spirit

Of the great predator

- Princeps huius mundi -

Though burnt in our pyres

Will transcend time

Soaring over

Physical extinction

Domine te voco

Iustum mihi ostende unicum

Talis monstris ob spectaculum

Stupefactus ego moriar...

... on meurt a moins!

Hooked hands

Stretched out above

In the ultimate endeavour

To clutch an atom

That does not sink

In the day of wrath

The hungry marionettes

Wake up - come alive

While birds of soul

Usher in

The rays of chaos..

"Fatal infection... far all!

Epidemy! Epidemy!"

Dies irae!

Feeding on fragments of gangrene

Teeth crumble

Toes fall apart

We crawl like earth-worms

That rats and birds fight over

Scored by silence

Spirits creep

Out of the secret nooks:

Scatter in the streets

Each one

Choosing his own

Beloved prey

Among the trees

Holding her out my hands

"What about a walk?"

I avoid the sharp splinters

Of her sweet shattered gaze

Step by step

Into the labyrinths of doubt

Every shelter: a trap

While distresses I witness

The twilight of my heart

You spread around drops of light

Unaware of the rustle

Of invisible syllables:

"You will not get out

Of eternal peace!"

And the virgin blade kisses

- Freeing -

Your white throat

No pain

I'm quite sure

She feels no pain!

The voice

Still throbs:

"Each man

Kills

The thing

He loves!"

Ih the purple flashes

Of the blazing blood

Slowly we vanish

In and around ourselves

Cells of spirit dissolve

Bit by bit...

"You will not get out of eternal peace!

You will not get out of eternal peace!"

Suddenly the void

Fills your first born

Vibration

Just the still slpendour

Of your icy wards endures

I see you through my tears

Tears that nobody ever will dry...

"You will not get out of eternal peace!

You will not get out of eternal

Peace/kill/sleep/murder/death

The last word of my script

Is now diclaimed

Time is over

And there's no whispering prompter

To ease my scenic solitude

The crawling shape intrudes

And while I open my arms

Ii seizes me in its jaws!

"This is my body, which is sacrificed for you!"

("Into thy hands I commend my spirit...")

Oout. Out are the lights. Out all

And over each quivering form

The curtain comes down

Like a funeral pall

With a rush of storm

While angels

- Pale and silent -

Rising and unveiling

Affirm

That we are witnessing

The tragedy

"Man"

And its hero is...

The conqueror worm

Yet I would lose no sting

Would wish no torture less;

The more that anguish racks

The earlier it will bless

And robed in fires of hell

Or bright in heavenly shine

If it but herald death

The vision is devine

The still look

Curled up in the strait-jacket

Fading of tears

Behind every kiss:

A potential Judas

Desire of biting

The vital artery

Mine

Or of the first passer-by

Insects with legs

Torn off

My nails one by one

Shards of glass

In eyes of cat

Smile. Or simply: ivory

Good night

Plug disconnected

Some flowers

In the first month

Then just:

Earth