Son of Man
"Upright man seeks his divinity by inflicting pain."
--- Derek Wolcott
Conjured from a dark sea
I offer my dry breath.
Call me life. Call me death.
I walked upon land in search of blood:
(blood is the current of my brood).
A keen assassin exchanging cruelty for pride,
scavenging my own irrelevance; armies swarming; vast circuits
of cacophony and ubiquitous violence:
an alien Word attached to a dumb mystery:
maladapted, imprisoned
and alone
in my domain of codes,
consoled by starlight's
fictive constellations
in the twilight.
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