you recover
waiting to learn
doomsday’s face
its eyes and teeth
the devil has risen
the largest rooms
dread and frayed wires
beckon me by calling your name
pleading, give me
flesh to flesh
a hundred hands begging
tell me about your longest day
despair and disparity deepens each
parched and impassioned eye
stared and gnawed on
give our crowns and halos
because
you don't live, you recover