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Conceived in sin

His bearer overpowered

Borne of death and loss

As a boy

His guilt blossomed

In the fertile furrows

Of recrimination

His existence, his shadow:

The sum of malevolent error

As a young man

Dogged by failure

Bathed in dismay

A course set for dusk

Wandering through lands

Almost abandoned

Instruments dry with goetia

In the case by his side

Pale damp folds

Sickly sweet

Under an unsmiling sun

Carving the beautifully untouched

Howling ascends skywards

Alongside embers and woodsmoke

He walks purposefully

Across bleak basalt

Dancing in molten judgement