Melancholia

Melancholia / Joshua Alan Sturgill

Find yourself lost
in a patterned house
a tiled mosque
— aimless Ascension
with no Pentecost

Free in subjection
to Dharma’s demand
rebirths in succession
— endlessly Harrowed
with no Resurrection

Observe unaware
the continual test
you can’t be prepared
— Desert Temptation
with no Angels’ Care

Begin at the end
en massa damnata
among the condemned
— an Annunciation
with no Bethlehem