Adam Loughnane is 22 years old. He was born and raised in Galway. Adam completed an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics at NUIG. He has a passionate interest in literature and aspires to become a professional novelist and writer. His favorite writers include Haruki Murakami, T.S. Eliot, and Adrienne Rich.

Now I Am Become Death – The Destroyer Of Worlds

Winding and weaving like an old outstretched Almanac
The Fragments of Memory float as Grains in the Sunshine
What is that Sentiment so fetid, so foul?
So jarring, so empty – Crushed Petals on Concrete

Oh, They care not for the Needs of Posterity
The Door has closed – That cold, stone Edifice
Yet Moths still murmur of Valiance and Revolution
A Gray Tide glides as Weary Cliffs contemplate

Indeed, the Hustle and Bustle will continue apace
No Ceremony, no Honour, no Truth
Young Yresim perished once again Today
They were drowned out by brambled Materialism

The Gales, the Noxious Gales are shrieking
Equinox Daylight exudes amongst the Derelict Rafters
When will the Bed of Self-Satisfaction fall?
The Roof – Our Roof – is gasping, is clutching

Beneath Swarthy Elysium, Scarecrows now roam free
My sallow Abdomen is splitting – has split
The Crystals of Threnody are one with the Oxygen
Dragonflies rape within Purple Shade’s dominion

And He stands in the Hail – that ungodly Bastard
His Face turned back, the Epitome of Pathos
Those Crematory Words drip from His Abominable Soul
“Now I Am Become Death – The Destroyer Of Worlds”