So was this your sweetest dream,
The peak of your desires?
To conquer and to rule,
Cognize and analyze.

This persistent electric light
Of your ever-glowing reason
Is but a torch in the heart of caves:
Seeing something, you miss the whole.

You say that gods are dead,
So who’d you worship now?
Some truths, they never change
As laws and customs do.

I saw your shining kingdom
Of glass and stainless steel.
No gallows or noisome gutters,
But why so cold and bleak?

Staring at the abyss,
Is it you who stare?
You’ve explained both stars and atoms,
But where do those nightmares come from?

You’ve lit the blackest night.
…Have you evaded the dark?