Numinous Catastrophy - Medico Peste

Flux of shame and exultation

Inner intoxicating, delightful tremor

Warmth and mellowness in defeat

In it the sense of victory!

Lost all faith in inspiration

And miraculous veneration of truth

Uncontrolled and entangled

Perpetually confused

A lifeless form of life

A spiritual lust

We hunger for esoteric nourishment

Primordial prior prevailing delusion

Of salvation of the soul

Delusions freed in malign

Inspired onslaughts of skeptics

And outer restlessness

The extinction of morality

And the spirits from the past

The harsh, the powerful, the impetuous

Oh the potent wretchedness!

We bear onward the banner of enlightenment

And celebrate the destruction of Christian dogma

The devious web-weavers bewilderment

As they succumb to their own malediction

The diminished and uprooted, imago dei

And maggots in life’s bread