Lights
The crystals glint on glass windows,
luminous blue and chrome on silver metals,
colliding and collapsing on humanity’s
inventions and forgotten, unknown, to the world. All warmth is compressed into nothing--
nothing natural exists; fiery breath
burns synthetic steam and, scorched, evaporates
against the sterile electric pearls-- concoctions of death and loneliness
prescribed to masses who know no better,
healthy doses of abandonment and sorrow,
convinced their eyes a