The vast of heaven
opens upon the heart
and a year long query.

Spiritual leaders speak
of the time with no light
from dark corners
and subliminal messages of
red heifers and war
with the descendants of Xerxes.

Too long sardonic songs
carried by ash and wind
to outpost Restrepo
without batting a Hiroshima eye.
Penny for your thoughts but,
nickle and dimed to death.
Might makes right in
apocalyptic era.