As You Read

As You Read

After Denise Levertov

As you read, the unfulfilled prophecies of a thousand voices

are lost to an immaterial leviathan of time.

And as you read, the minds of the young and the minds of the many

fester in utmost depravity due to a lack of subversive thoughts.

And as you read, the trepidation of the spheres continues

turning and leaves you behind.

Because you just couldn’t stop reading.