Elysium

Do you wish to see

Both truth and belief

Destroyed?

Yes, they cry!

And whose do you wish

To see set aflame?

Yours, they taunt!

So I kneel

Hold my arms out

And gratefully accept

The lighting of the fuse

Let Elysium come, I think

Let Elysium burn

© Arron Hickman (The Harlequin Heart) 2020

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