Displaying a reverence
For knowledge
Unalloyed and flagrant
Parading devotionless
To the erudite
Assembled in the
Spirit of forgery
Zealot and partisan
Of the ailings of discipline
Countless victims pierced
By the daggers of mimicry

Seeking the light of direction
Offered as a pledge to certainty
Severing as a ritual
The searching hand
Relinquish and malign the tactile
Wounds robed
Vulgar in the ornaments of aspect
Rushing headlong to the surface

Suspended in a new inertia
A cloak to preclude acceptance
Flailing unforgiven
Shielded by myth articulate

Take flight
Such fictions will not avail
Acknowledge them before you
All waning to mineral
Aureate dissent in the shackles
Of significance
Inviolate cruelty
To the mortal structure
Endorsing affliction
Skull splintering like dull glass
A discarded mosaic