A Man of Great Appetites

Conceived in sin
His bearer overpowered
Borne of death and loss

As a boy
His guilt blossomed
In the fertile furrows
Of recrimination

His existence, his shadow:
The sum of malevolent error

As a young man
Dogged by failure
Bathed in dismay
A course set for dusk

Wandering through lands
Almost abandoned
Instruments dry with goetia
In the case by his side

Pale damp folds
Sickly sweet
Under an unsmiling sun

Carving the beautifully untouched
Howling ascends skywards
Alongside embers and woodsmokе

He walks purposefully
Across bleak basalt

Dancing in moltеn judgement