This Still Life is Electrifying

Crazed scribblings of rotten minds
Dance across a porcelain canvas,
Dripping venom from tarantella footwork.

I ask the primordial brew for entrance,
Exhilarated by the nascent cosmos
My mind is taken to pieces by the darkness.

Shadows being devoured by shadows
Flare novas before a tremulous stage,
Shunning allegory in stark colors - contrasts.

I send my soul out from a hollow shell
Feeling its ascent into the world,
Leaving its insane dreams behind.

Ephemeral jaws fleck the cosmos -
I see the flash of rabid organs detonating like depth charges;
This still-life is electrifying.

Men die as the army
Soldiers on, stoic
As the holocaust dies down.
Excited by the flames of victory,
It marshalls its
Obliterated limbs,
Ignoring the knowledge that
By tomorrow its life,
Limbs and excitement and all,
Shall be spent.