Heavens War!
A flaming bow of agonies arrows
Precisionistly launched into the night
Penetrating at will, an endless column of lives
Bleeding souls, bound in flesh, of their imprisoned sight....
Walls of blackness, where they stand and face, the executioners aim
Unable to see beyond this realm, these eyes, the truth of all things
Caught in a sphere, of glimpses that shimmer to their fade
Kingdoms beyond their visions, blinded unto, as they have their way....
To escape these grippings, that squeeze the light from their lives
Beating hearts which lay buried, beneath these suffocating graves
But it does not have to be this way?
If only they can enter, the lantern of faith!
To search through the caverns, of darkened night
For the key to the treasure, that shall guide them beyond this life
For to only behold the black and the gray
The twirling twisting shadows, which lie in their way
Is but a sepulchre, towards tomorrows, ultimate fall....
To have pastellus pastels, painted, within colors and hues both dark and bright
Flickering embers of ashes, deceivinlgly, pasted upon their eyes
While reaching through fog, clinging to walls, and, stumbling through life
Caught within this realm, countless souls-the unknowing, of this flesh....
Barely breathing, and clutching tightly, begging, for their lives
To awaken from this dream, to arise beyond this night
To see the kingdoms which do stand, afore their blurried eyes
Shall in the end become the difference, between tombs, and paradise!?
The unveiling of faith, the unmasking of sight....
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Heavens War!
Copyright © John Rhinem | Year Posted 2009
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