—I’M NOT THE MAN THEY THINK I AM AT ALL

 

I woke up and 

pillaged the planet 

stripped its soul first 

broke its hollow bones

then set the heap on fire 

and when I was done 

brother after brother 

did the same until 

everything was rubble 

made of smoldering cinder 

while we floated on filthy seas 

watching wisps of smoke 

write our names 

and confessions

in the doomed sky