Malevolent figure, self-consecrated but alone,
eyes scorching with extinction and with hate,
crucifying all within their orbit with irate
and incensed looks. His seat of stone

cleaving beneath his depravity, the throne
of injustice broken as his minions concentrate
their evil at his feet, supplicate and elevate
Him as their divinity, though he was overthrown

like them and cast into the pit.
Behind him flare the flames of hell:
Sulphurous yellow, burnt orange pyres that fit

and forge-like wings around his shadow, the smell
of his fetid and polluted soul: He does commit
without remorse the crimes for which he fell.

                                       1975