I had a Dream (Fourteenth Night)

I had a dream

an impermeable

drifting melancholy

in an astral void

there was darkness

so complete

the crepuscular stars

evaded my lingering gaze

through the universe's

penumbra

of demise

meant to balance

the life

that only I

will never hold dear

with sepulchral chills

of apathetic vacuum

stripping my desire

for ardor

to fill this husk

already dead

to equivalence of archeus

in still beating hearts

consigned to wander

without purpose

closer to life

perhaps to death

entangled by whimsical tides

fathomless eddies

of hope's mockery

to finally die

for these dreams

in medias res

to culminate

aeons torn asunder

with pernicious

Astraea's despair

never to flow

through congealed veins

without virtue

for abating hearts

drawing my gaze ahead

at last to an uncanny

chasm more devoid

than the void

firmament

where even hope

desires and dreams

will never escape

looking back at

receding stars

with indifference

to faint flickers

a semblance of hope

eidolons of isolation

until everything was

homogeneous agony

of rent space-time

that taunted

you will always be alone

on unending exodus to

singularity's vortex

and try as I might

I would never escape

my dreams

Reviews

[Kuandio]

I've decided to keep going with these unto the bitter end (I'm joking about the existentialist doom)

I confess I had to crack the online search open to find the meaning of some of the Greek words. You have me wondering if maybe you were a philosophy major?

nice line - "the equivalence of archeus in still beating hearts"
another - "fathomless eddies of hope's mockery"

Now, I praised the first poems quite a bit, so I hope you hear me objectively when I say that by the time I've come to this one that the feel of them has started to get repetitive. There is such a heavy ominous cast, unrelenting, that overall it starts to lose its strength. The effect might be greater if there were moments where it was allowed to rest, before being stirred up again. The vocab and word combinations are impressive as always though

[Nusquam Esse]

It was actually my intention to make this one feel a bit withdrawn.... like when you have been so overcome with grief that you just stop caring... to a degree. So I wanted this one to be losing a certain strength to it, feeling more... methodical. I will have to take a look at it once I finish the full set, and can compare to how it works with the more lighthearted first half. And nope, I did not major in Philosophy, hahahahah! Just read a decent amount of mythology (you probably notice the frequency that I reference it). There are just some of those old words that really excite me, and stimulate my mind. Chthonic, Ichor, Archeus, Eidolon, Pantheon... And I did appreciate the bitter end. :)

[Einstein Noodle]

soooooooooo! you had a Zombie dream eh!? :)
you packed this one with some fantastic words .. especially this: "...crepuscular stars" .. they are, aren.t they?! .. little starry mice, or bats up there shimmering around .. nocturnal to the tenth degree ... i really like the thought of that!! "...crepuscular stars" .. indeed!! :))
E.

[Nusquam Esse]

I am glad that you enjoyed that word choice; I was worried that crepuscular might be too odd a word choice. I thought it fit though... so I went for it. I remember coming across the word around three years ago, and thinking that it deserved some more use. Thanks for reading, and for sharing your impressions!