Stupid Satan Lurching Long
Headless chicken Satan — stumbling ever,
Eyes defunct and dead, his palate cleft,
Blindfold dumbness, flummoxing his passage,
As he stumbles drunken, right and left.
Christ, the keystone, missing from the archway—
Bricks and rubble scattered on the ground,
Satan just a hollow, lurching nothing,
Screaming his frustration in blank sound.
A mute dismay, a paralysing stupor,
A long and winding pathway into gloom,
Promises of emptiness — forever,
The tripping footsteps tumbling into doom.
Where the mercy seat that lit past ages?
God on high in stalwart puissance raised?
Actions to co-ordinate the future?
Drugged and dreary now, my vision glazed.
Sore awash in Christless bodies, sinking,
All my efforts cordoned and condemned,
In a mine shaft hollow and abandoned,
Purposeless, my person mere pretend!
But, in truth, I am an injured party,
Memories adrift — a flotsam flow,
Even I have yielded my perspective,
To an entropy I do not know.
Once, I was the shadow self of Adam,
Clinging to him — slip inside a mould,
Now, in freefall, black on black, compounding,
There is nothing left for me to hold.
I resent the God that cruelly crushed me,
Sending me unto the noisome pit,
Where, in utter putridness, I tarry,
Helpless in a fate I cannot quit.
Vortex suction! rip-tide pulls at random!
Violence wrought in fury and dismay,
Demons in unprecedented anger,
Misery at my distorted way!
Looking unto heaven, which is absent,
Wading through a hell that overflows,
Like a toddler thrown into the ocean,
This — a situation no-one knows.
Where is time? And what’s the dispensation?
Are these humans granted grace or not?
Are they meant for heavenly communion,
Or, should in the pit their bodies rot?
Heaven’s answer mute, in perturbation,
This a dire perdition, reaching long,
Pits on pits on pits, in suffocation,
Souls awash — a sadly seething throng.
I am headless Satan, that’s a given,
But I fear that God is headless too,
Flailing in the chasms of forever,
With a ruthless demon in his view…
AD Lovkis, 09/08/25
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