Conquest

CONQUEST

In dreaming seem our cornered failings

Fragile things, in cages flailing

Minions to our ailing angels

Crystal starlight quickly paling.

In wishing spoil our great endeavors

Decompose a life dissevered

Headlong into clever maws

They drop into mundane whatevers.

In hoping warp our heart’s inclinings

Rigid rings of ice entwining

Bones within the spining backs

Of creatures sick with others’ whining.

In daring wax our regnant conquests

Prove our mettle, natures undressed

Crash the waves whose unrest we

Must apprehend at will’s behest. 

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