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Oppenheimer's Lament

Michael Marchese

By Michael Brandon MarchesePublished 5 years ago 1 min read

Messiahs and martyrs

And saviors

And saints

Sacrosanct

Sanctimonious

False idol feints

Behind gates,

Palace walls

Fortified in a lie

An elaborate,

Enduring

Mythos we contrive

And apply

To the lives

Of misguided lost souls

Filling holes

With the answers

Of what never knows

How to be of this world

Without more to assign

What is so picture perfectly

Flawed by design

Intertwined with

The years we spend

Spacing in time

Agonizingly trying

To find

Our own kind

Out among the expanse

Starry satellite trance

Higher intellects seek

And destroy

To advance

The agenda, to claim

A new age

Under orders

Anointed upon

The consent

Of the heaven-sent

Nuclear bomb

social commentary

About the Creator

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