“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.

I keep dreaming you will drag me from these cold walls once again,


Your warm torchlight cutting through the black rot clinging to my bones.


But the City keeps sealing my ribs into its shape,


And while I sink further into the gaping mouth of forevermore,


And the rot dripping from its tongue and swirling itself into my lungs.


And I know, somewhere beyond these walls,


you are lifting your light for another,


a new chosen one whose bones will hold it cleanly,


Oh, I am sure that boy is everything I was supposed to be.


Chapter 7 - .:7:.