8 hours ago
Walls
Do good, O Lord, unto Sion in thy good pleasure,
and let the walls of Jerusalem be builded.
Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
These great big stones give way to bricks give way
to sand, aggregate, water, and cement
poured into lattices of carbon steel
topped with more steel---this time squeezed into wires
then twisted into barbs---now meant to part
what all the earlier were built to keep
if not united then at least alive,
now all they cannot build's a roof and spires
completely hollow and at the very top
left open to the judgement of the stars:
the smoke would be a hazard to the health,
the cries more of a nuisance than the odd
bursting of drones and rockets over streets---
the contradictions would be made too clear,
the bullocks that for their altar they had picked
ordained by their true sovereign to live.
Do good, O Lord, unto Sion in thy good pleasure,
and let the walls of Jerusalem be builded.
Then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
These great big stones give way to bricks give way
to sand, aggregate, water, and cement
poured into lattices of carbon steel
topped with more steel---this time squeezed into wires
then twisted into barbs---now meant to part
what all the earlier were built to keep
if not united then at least alive,
now all they cannot build's a roof and spires
completely hollow and at the very top
left open to the judgement of the stars:
the smoke would be a hazard to the health,
the cries more of a nuisance than the odd
bursting of drones and rockets over streets---
the contradictions would be made too clear,
the bullocks that for their altar they had picked
ordained by their true sovereign to live.