Suspended in the New Fade, Part 8

Ellah and her secret echo Elah
approve of all they see in the New Fade

this is not surprising
as they are the gods of these times

they are trickster gods
the only kind possible
shifting from moment to moment
so that whatever people currently believe
they amply represent

what else should a god do
when faith is so hard to find
in intangible things?

the rebellion against old regimes
continues to be against old methods
not so much what they represent
and this includes our religions

perhaps there is no name except El
where the world is constantly exploding
and the survivors are picking at the scraps
and each other in a mad scramble for life
empowered by the Sun to give themselves
a belief in the facade of their existence

in the shadow of the valley
rode a hundred disciples
ready to sacrifice themselves
in some crude bastardization
of events that happened
a hundred times before
but only once when it mattered

it's funny that all of this is so convoluted
even though it takes place
in a serious place on a serious earth

sometimes the apocalypse is the same as paradise