Academy

Stones crash on rose flesh 

Mint Arctic skies leak thawing 

Imperfections made

Congressional castle, watchtower eyes

Vested guards jest, silver jacket threat, comms

Blink like cell rods at midnight, little spies

Frolic academic battlegrounds, gone

To learn war, friends left, family tree lies

On bombed frontiers, new news pinned, lifestyle drawn

A blueprint of timeless Domes and loveless

Air to accompany sprouting loneliness

Boot to face awakes 

Tombed excellence, sandstone maze 

Quaking prophecy

Portraits stare cold, oak interior takes 

Hold, Council freaks hymn no.2 cuts halls

To symphonic treachery, Gaulless breaks 

Silence “Are you lost?” off she calls 

“Just seeking peace, new home, old life, what makes 

This palace great?” I said hoping that all 

Would end soon, anxious me, foolish wanderer dwell

Strange charcoal empress awaits, youth soon fails. 

Carved rock, smooth pain pulls,

Lake Mei, plastic shame, acid

Lips, dragon’s scorn burns.

Painted before Us was her, rising Queen

Alexandria, council freak no.1,

“This is where our new Empire begins, seen

Turn to unseen, kids to killers, for some

Home others Hell, who knows in the end, dreams

Could only explain where we are, live son,

Lust endless, gorge fountains, take everything.”

She said softly, heart flooded, bell rings.

Gleaming wasteland heals

Mental atrophy, Devil

Speak meter sweet.

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(1) Doom: https://theprose.com/post/419897/doom

(2) Historia: https://theprose.com/post/424698/historia

(3) Oblivion: https://theprose.com/post/426993/oblivion

(4) Oceanside: https://theprose.com/post/428493/oceanside

(5) Apocalypse: https://theprose.com/post/432306/apocalypse

(6) Entity: https://theprose.com/post/435150/entity

(7) Academy [doesn’t really count but it exists]: https://theprose.com/post/454455/academy

(8) Timeless: https://theprose.com/post/485400/timeless

(9) Eden: https://theprose.com/post/503844/eden

(10) Legion: https://theprose.com/post/525083/legion

(11) Afterlife: https://theprose.com/post/525696/afterlife

(12) Hellfire: https://theprose.com/post/530083/hellfire

(13) Deliverance: https://theprose.com/post/612211/deliverance