mars
you and i have unfinished business
you taught me destruction
a skill for leaving trails
of unmarked graves and broken spears
your path leads nowhere but down
stone is your only element
you bask in the sun for millennia
and only learn what it means to burn
you serve neither love nor justice
but conquest as its own reward
its prize a thread of wounds and ash
what words could you offer for redemption
how dare you speak them
over the eulogy of rain
and falling earth
Mars Will Send No More 