Agony Vision

Behold my victim in throes of death
 His limbs stretched on suffocation
 Rain anoints his ragged flesh
 Staunching open wounds bled of grief
 A shrill of dread unnerves my soul
 Behold the face stilled to its lifeless mask
 Bruised rents traced across contorted features
 His lips part around grimacing despair
 Vomiting an utterance I cannot comprehend
 Shuddering movement ripples the skin
 Of life's remnant regretfully surfaced
 There dissipated on the gloom
 Bone leers through shredded sinews
 Imperial garb of expiation's king
 His torment over the body slumps pinned to its scaffold
 Opened arms directed earthwards embracing the grave
 Scalded in the dead man's gaze murk momentary clears
 With eternal triumph glimmered behind his eyes
 Launched through darkness upon irresistible destruction
 Erstwhile trivialities lay betrayed
 Guilt and grief stripped of menace
 Subverted solitary instincts
 Discovering oceanic sympathy
 Encompassed with death to realise ineffable peace