Dementia Pathos Poem by Vladislav Martynovitch

Dementia Pathos
Dementia demi
Spins over the orb,
Remembrance claiming
Through chaos of drops

Through windfuls of tempests,
Through fires of strikes:
Beware you, tenets,
Heaps stinking of rugs! ..

Memorial mori -
Life stone creates
To chisel your warrant,
To put in your blade,

To make Hero's stature
And earn holy Right:
For Legend to cure
Souls seeking their light! ..

Let statues and temples
Be crushed and restored -
And grandsons of vandals
Their essence adore:

Dementio-cratos
In auto-start -
Rebirth its new pathos,
Frankincense and nard! ..