Pantoum 1: Man's Reprise
Itai Epstein
The gaze of man
is temptation failed;
through lust and greed
we will never be freed.
Temptation failed
will bring about the cleansing.
We will never be freed,
though anguish and bigotry our egos brewed.
Will bring about the cleansing—
the blind will reap the living, raised to the crimson sky.
Though anguish and bigotry our egos brewed,
light will come burning from within.
The blind will reap the living raised to the crimson sky.
Mankind ascended will reclaim what was theirs.
Light will come burning from within,
the cycle will take all, mankind never being freed.
Mankind ascended will reclaim what was theirs.
The cycle will take all, mankind never being freed.
Temptation failed.