“Lamentation for Black Rot” is a narrative poem by Kapalshiuu. Based on the Twenty One Pilots Cinematic Universe, this poem follows Nova in the aftermath of the cycle, abandoned by the Torchbearer. This lamentation traces grief as a physical corruption called the Black Rot that grows inside him, reshaping memory, body, and faith. Moving through denial, shame, regret, fixation, and quiet self-destruction, the poems read as a wound that never seals and yearning itself is the disease that keeps him alive.

And when the black paint gnaws its way down my throat,


It will thicken around my heart and feel the shame of how close it comes to you.


I will let the black rot braids with my very veins,


And it will taste of every word i wish i could unsay.


Your torch touches me and the maggots shiver awake,


Skin blistering to show bone that never listened to you.


And the cracks open fast, and the black rot slips through those seams, dragging your light down my lungs


Until my ribcage forgets the warmth of you.


Chapter 3 - .:3:.