Reverse Ascension

Send me back to before my animal birth into this decaying system of flesh It maintains an isolated pulse, temple of cognitive turbulence Condense, descend Reverse ascension to a dense system which leeches from chemical bonds The cleansing is incomplete A dark strain festers evoked by changing surroundings It was always there Irreversible transformation has begun In limbo between obverse states of density Calling into ruined stations of old Wait in dead air to hear an echo of the ancient machine, forsaken An oscillator set into rotation Providing momentum against gravity towards elevation I rose until I saw the ancient face and gave into fear Send me back Dripping in a virus I cannot see, drowning in the tangible. I refused a skyward transition, accepting only dense vibrations, matter-bound Consciousness disconnected from the still-breathing vessel Falsely ambulant, never vacant, teeming with movement under skin translucent Human animal: annex of darkness Every sense infested with absence Spirit evicted, threshold retracted, sealed by mortality redacted It was always there