Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol-Contest

Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol The autumnal equinox period Spells time for worship, pilgrimages Rituals and a pandemonium Of festivities and gay hyperactivities The elephant godhead idol Over decked, anointed With all fervour is immersed In its watery bed amidst chantings Its worshipped form Turns to formlessness The formless deities rise at dawn Bleating like sacrificial lambs Leaving a trail of dismembered limbs On shores like the carnage of pilgrims Heaped on one another in Mecca After the great crane's death knell A convoy of trucks arrive to pile The mutilated aftermath of their godly images Littered unwanted on the golden sands Sweep the once worshipped but Now shredded and tattered earth's burden On their slow funeral cortege sans protocol SECOND Balveen Cheema November 11, 2015 Contest: Dark Poetry Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron