RUIN

RUIN

in the ruins
of a bombed-out city

(the bombing
destined tp continue
whilst the perpetrators
are still
    at large)

an iconic, Teutonic soul,
philologist-philosopher by trade
and prescient mind
from a former
   world-defining age

sits on a white plastic chair
more conspicuous target
it would
     be hard to imagine

communing with past,
present future

citizen of the inescapable
State of Ruin

              Kingdom of
Heaven

somewhat deconstructed,
polarized,

       downward death-shifted