prowler of the universe

filching heaven’s secrets

roving star of inglorious

ordained pecking order

unprincipled food chain

nourishing consciousness

and small consequences

giant leaps fore and aft

eliminating starving inmates

fattening the opulent excess

barbed benevolence unfrocked

denial for denial’s own sake

wasting what cannot be gorged

renegade the unholy magus

dissident the shielded lovers

albeit unbeknownst to these

they are all that stands twixt

limitless time and its assassin

foiling a boo hiss thorny encore