“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 memorized the cracks the night you left me.


I could stitch the rot back into something that resembles a chest.


I practice your name like a cure under my tongue,


Taste it, then hold it, then spit it out.


Because I already proved what happens when I reach for light with these rotten hands.


Chapter 4 - .:4:.