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The Religious Issue
Vol. 5 Issue 1
The Devil's Sickness
by Jonathan David Levine
We shall go mad and act strange,
a strangeness not of sweet melancholia
but as a swelling river trampling a castle of sand
free of guilt and remorse
that inhabits the devil's sickness.
Deep into the night our illness lies awake
staggering our thoughts into a ripe oblivion
where we are too impaired to understand fear
and too healthy to notice
as if the clocks all stopped ticking but time continued.
Odd memories harness the world
that's bitter because the blind have visions
and the observing witnesses of mankind's tragedy
are killed off like weak animals
when a vengeful god of predator senses their weakness.