There in the tomb drops the faint moonlight,
But wind comes up from the shore:
They shake when the winds roar,
Old bones upon the mountain shake.
The wind is hushed
in gentle whispers,
spasms of the damned
the wicked and the dead
Across the universe
beyond the sky,
We swallow seives and sand
and burn the Books,
listening to the twisted cry
Beyond salvation, where
only resurrection is entwined
with the silver and gold
embued into the soul
there is the black
The cold black Tower
risen from the slavery
and the arrogance
Silenced by the
gasping wind,
and blown away like dust
To Dust is their names
risen from the tomb
of death
and the watery grave
The wind chants whispers
2+2=5
The dead crawl
in defiled rot,
across the ozone layer,
bleaching memories
and intoxicating dreams
Black souls, caked
in oil and tar
are swallowed by the darkness
and the heaving universe
There is the spasm
in the Kingdom of the Spring Beauty
the Valley of the Hyacinth
As smoke rings rise
into the air
the world trembles
and the shadows crawl,
the black tower falls
Here we cast grains of sand
across the universe
and spread the ash
spread the ash
To till the loam
where the dead
hide their bones
and their deathly memories
in the wasteland, the stark wasteland
before and after
the death
The wind goes silent
and the world is bare
asleep from the lullaby
to end all that
existed before
the spasm
Author notes
11: As smoke rings rise into the air (or sky)
Lines 1-4 are taken from The Black Tower by William Butler Yeats
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Aha! Playing upon my heart LOL. Yeats is my favorite poet if you have seen my author's page than you know! (just kidding.) This was a very deep and beautiful write. thank you for the entry.
