Entombed in chrome, steel, and speed,
Humanity slays the night
With headlights,
Banshee engines screaming
V8 defiance,
High-octane ghosts in the exhausts
Bellowing spectral smoke,
A motorized mausoleum
Driving away from nature
And slipping into darkness
In the midnight heart
Of a graveyard city.
Jun 20, 2013
Jun 20, 2013 at 7:22 PM UTC
Entombed in chrome, steel, and speed,
Humanity slays the night
With headlights,
Banshee engines screaming
V8 defiance,
High-octane ghosts in the exhausts
Bellowing spectral smoke,
A motorized mausoleum
Driving away from nature
And slipping into darkness
In the midnight heart
Of a graveyard city.