Eviscerate Divine - Iapetus

A painter in constant creation;

His palette blood, his brush violence

With each pass of brush on canvas

A wound to his prophetic hand

Instruments of progress are the tools demise;

The pinnacle of expression is death

And his heart beats to passing brush;

A gentle touch to its rugged flesh

As minutes lengthen into years

He sees how his life has passed him;

Filled with longing, bathed in tears

Circumspect bloodshed;

Profligate existence

His work concludes, crafted in troth

Being brutal and elegant both

Order made from chaos and chaos from serenity

The masterpiece is divine, destructive, but different than expected;

It cannot coexist with its maker;

And at the final stroke, art annihilates the artist

As minutes lengthen into years

He sees how his life has passed him;

Filled with longing, bathed in tears

A dreamer

A thinker

All for naught

Sustenance and meaning

Is all that he sought

He will not be released

From the nightmare he’s conceived

There is no redemption for his soul

When destiny meets demise

Twas not his nightmare in his art;

His art reflected who we are