THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN

Light's shadow anchor,

elemental diode sky soup,

gravitation yielding omega,

alphamale religions,

survival dressed as the codified,

armistice of consequence,

mending the melding of wayward command,

into one foul weapon,

the shape of persuasion unmet, unconvincing,

thriving in the sweltering pressure,

thriving condignment,

of expiative order,

receiving sunyata's form,

in the ambient auspices of a universe,

a cosmogony of agony,

in an agon of defeat,

conditioning emancipation's wake, 

from the slumber of convenience.

Somewhere in the deliberation of science,

myth is born to die a billionfold,

in the name of preserving tacit truths,

whose hold upon the mind,

bewilders prescience,

on the path to the eternal,

in the mandate of heaven.

Poem and image © 2016 by Peter Kaleb Theodoropoulos aka Rockwell Wilder