unknown virus

you're a picture cut in time

eternity dustiness, in caverns

shining the glass edges

of civilisation crumbling

light torches

around the flies

buzzing on your satin gown

this a corpse

well that which once was

was not once oblivious

that in the abyss depths

only time is certain

death is imminent

a change once thought forbidden

is now essential

to the vision

inside this crystal ball

a life bedridden

within dark cracks

and sleepless providence

he watches all

once was watching

is still watching

never leaving his seat

carving out to unconscious curtains

an image he made thus

to show that though the flame burns out

it does persist to show an abstract depiction

is key to the artist he puts dark crevices and wee meshes of wicked fun

amongst the fetishes that last for an Anthropocene

an armageddon thus began

as every beginning does end

hopeless

it just bears to remind us

that concepts of death

and what lays ahead

are pointless

for only time exists