Koresh Complex: Dark Invader

psychology of
a repressed state;

reluctant truth
of a christian cult
staled by reputation,
a century before laid open
of slavers and ivory hunters,
a source of, avenue to new
wealth, faith frozen, tested by
a corrupt church soggy with blood,
a story mad with false prophet, dream,
chaos, visions blurred and underground
illusions, defeat and disgrace,

siege ended
with burned out
mug shots, bureau
of alcohol, tobacco,
firearms, and explosives,
body of the commander,
sick, bearded, bloody and
finished with recruitment, religious
documents dense with biblical imagery
confiscated before an incendiary device
that wished fire was sent by ethereal messenger,
a listening device implanted in seeded ears, dark invader
he claims to be jesus.

judas.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist