Ausweg

You abandon us - you fucking dogs! You robbed us the fruit of the Earth! You poisoned water and sky for this! You raped our past, present, and future for this! You killed our gods! You killed our culture!

Yet it was you who dragged us into this valley
Its ways askance, we stumble
Combing the infinite coils
Of an ancient city
Of numberless crimes

We shall drink its poisoned water
Nestled in fold upon fold
The secret of most secret knolls
Rippling like pustules
Against unrelenting skies
Black as these riven plates of stone
Slaking in perpetuum
As slow as the spiraling arms
Of galaxies