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Prokofiev - Toccata in D minor op.11

heart of my hearts
Hundred white horses, men
Armoured to the nines
Belt down the black slick slope
Moon meanders
Overhead senselessly

The undergrowth comes alive! Vines
Carve chaos; violets crushed underfoot ¨C
Whips wild, desperate, dragging them
White necks like salmon drowned,
Churning ¨C comets etch magma arcs above

Fiery stars spark endlessly
In a mad rush the horsemen
Few not yet dead
Force their way free
Screaming, this is no fight

It¡¯s an endless black massacre ¨C
Faceless light, I love you,
It¡¯s an extinction ¨C

Everything is wrong, men dissolve
Into spiders and golems reek from the earth
White ghouls ascend and devour
A siren rings rippling through the bizarre sky
Unbalanced bodies cavort, bleeding

From hidden caverns come forth
Cadavers
An unthinkable numbness
Shattered with bodies and nightmare

Then like a volcano, the Virgin Mary
Rises and stills the world
As if a white pane of glass was laid upon it

Which sits heavy and complete
And immutable as sleep
And not a word is said.