Fallen Angel
you challenged the emptying of heaven
(whose mouth spat out its stars
into a bloody, whipped vacuum)
and sculpted your dark energy
into a defiant fist, shaking photons
and soulful dimensions of fury
you were a god's great lesson
so offended was your only deity
through your lush garden he violated
you, an underworld, a parent
to brutalize your negative elements
and teach you marble obedience
a broken consequence, this avenged planetoid
and you, a dying, beaten shadow
your flame for war, extinguished
whose memories of chariots and wings and sunbeams
are reduced to these needles and spoons
R.W. Hurst
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