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Holy Armies

"In the name of something holy."

By CorvusPublished 8 months ago 1 min read
Image by Georg Nigglii from Unsplash

Your God warns you of armies

marching into you, taking arms up

inside your vessels

in the name of something holy.

She speaks to you, Her voice

a dynamic, monotonic

wrath, emergent like monoliths

of warzones

etched in your veins, each childhood

lesion a legion of lost

battles, of lost wars.

She speaks like God sputters

blood into your body, a voice

molding you into obelisks bolstered

by your vertebrae, flesh

stretching upward, hands folding

inward in prayer.

She lays you to rest, your body

baptized by cavity bombs

searing desolation

into your corpse cavities. She speaks

a wasteland mass amassing

gunpowder

inside you, igniting like body pits

forcing brain-body funerals

in the name of something holy.

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About the Creator

Corvus

Corvus is a kaleidoscope of Gothic word-craft, stuck somewhere within the hurricanes of prose and poetry and wrung out on each page. Find more fragments of the love letter on their website, corvuslove.

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  • Taylor Harden3 months ago

    Didnt realize I needed to read this until now

  • love the line, in the name of something holy....beautiful

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