Spiked and Marked

Left behind detritus
Of an ephemeral empire
Melted into concrete
Beneath foot and tire

Scattered little crosses
Relics for the spare
Discarded and forgotten
Beneath a blinding glare

What now of the actor
Who seems lost to the void
Who once stood on that spike
Beneath super-cardioid

Melted into the city
An ephemeral bazaar
Left behind detritus
Beneath ascendant stars