The Descent

Why won't you and I escape from this gilded age
 Away from this crumbling world
 We can sail away on the seven seas
 On a porcelain ship
 With satin sails
 On seas of mercury
 We will coax the monsters
 Out from their deepest trenches
 To meet Surya's warm rays
 We will relive the purity and innocence
 Before the Fall of man
 In our utopia
 We will make a nest of fresh grass and lace
 And spend endless nights
 Solving the mysteries of the Arnolfini portrait
 We will never experience apathy
 Ennui
 Nor despair
 We will be far from the scourge of disease
 And grow forbidden fruit from a tree
 And eat from it without fear or guilt
 Each day will have the glory of all four seasons
 Everything will be sublime
 Every day will be divine
 It is only a universe away
 Just you and me
 We can live as immortals
 Forever nubile
 Forever fertile
 Your flesh in mine
 Won't you come with me
 Only if you want to
 When the jarring silence confronts you
 Reply with a melodious well-strung haiku
 When faced with nothing but shards and smithereens
 Of a flawed existence
 A glorious train wreck
 On her maiden voyage to a phantom promise land
 Detesting the white light of truth
 It's unflattering glare
 Leaving nothing bare
 Penetrating the thickest smog of ignorance
 Gasping for air as your flounder and flail
 Your face pressed against a glass ceiling
 Silence
 White light
 Greatest nemesis
 What we need is a baptism of fire
 A tabula rasa
 Fertile soils to sow the seeds of a new world
 But will we emerge scarred or unscathed
 Huddle with me
 In a foetal gnarl
 How cathartic it must be
 Toba has awaken
 All is white hot
 All is chaos
 Happy now
 They put down their shotguns and bibles
 Indeed
 Purgatory is at our door steps
 One thousand years of darkness
 And finally
 The long awaited rapture has arrived
 Sucking the self righteous into its clouds
 But not you, not me
 I'd like to be left behind
 On this godforsaken wasteland
 To witness the apocalypse
 Climbing trees
 To have a glimpse of the world
 Crumbling
 Nevertheless