Zeitgeist

a new adversary glowered

some savage hectoring from beyond the edge of the earth

heard not seen

a vibration

the weaponry of men are flawed

mere beaten pauldrons an exhibit in a museum scarred by the blows of some ancient battle

where men were dead beyond the resurrection of the Saints

an elusive enemy of ghosts

arrayed as an army

they care not for fragile vaccines

and stalk those men like fugitives

assassins disguised by night

proclaim a new dawn

man is discarded like a thing useless to the Gods

and this swarming pestilence shall inherit the earth