grim singular eye inside dead face
staring back into the coming gloom,
yet magnificent despite eternity’s graveyard
a singular light donating fleeting glimpses of life
resurrected from somnambulant souls
prism rays saturating mindful masterpiece eclipses
longing for rest inside the fading daylight
a demolished ocean of ivorysand
leaving only disembodied survivors
and shadows are trapped inside its waves of continual rebirth
fixated on another beginning
inside its cyclic seasons of ocean swells:
infinite candle once blazing now complacent,
quenched candle once imperishable now mortal
miles along a staggered beach,
a Platonic candle stretches endlessly
to where lost sailors, blinded by perfect light,
memorize elegiac manuscripts
recalling visionary tomes,
recite scrolls of sweetness gone demonic
and soon these blinded seafarers,
swirl beyond sentience before their grateful drown,
the waxen cadaverous reservoir