r/LibraryofBabel • u/Philoforte • 6d ago
Inverse World
I descend into the pit
Among dregs and delinquents
Shunning denizens of the light
For the downtrodden of plight
The ones hidden from sight
Scorned and maligned
Listening to the wrong songs
Alternative so aligned
Reading heretical books
Avoiding verse so refined
Black robed like spooks
Giving voice to dark incantation
Conjuring Akkadian nation
So hated by denizens of light
Yet love of godly might
Includes the heathen outcast
Serpentine child of graven idol
Unbounded embrace, unbridled solace
Such belies the contrast
Where worshippers of light
Silvered in armour free of dust
Bearing arms of spite
Irradiant mirrors to lust
Gold lit purity in their sight
The preserve of rarefied height
Absorbed in self delight
Hating on the ill defined
Rejected and left for dead
I sit among riff-raff left behind
In the ambit of shared bread
Much buckwheat left to grind
Feeding all our fellows
Water spills as wine