New Beginnings In Stone

New Beginnings in Stone Now rising from a silhouette stronghold stands in its shadow, a servant’s heart Enters tenacious consecrated emptiness as hope ponders three distant pipes When black crust lichen invades – enslaves - the mason’s ancient framework Bits of falling pebbles facelift rough cheeks pitted by mortar’s mortal tears Even as granite blocks shudder in grieving poverty of unsettled gloom Grabs at careless jaundice of moss and age - scribed ascent of ancient angels In three corniced images of corn and elephants restored - Nascent tree of life woven into a fabric of stone Navigates new christened knights and chisels to one Nativity In a carved and raised relief that points to the empty Sunday morning tomb Gospel message told in vaulted arches -in rainbows of alabaster illumination - Soaring sandstone above sanctified crypts of holy mysteries, legend entwined Intrigue of time – visions of a hallowed grail, lost to crusaders’ eyes, Noble dream to beatify three times three prophecies of the anointed Strong walls like Templar’s arms guard breathing stone in carved canopies Tales of a blessed grail protected in a new grail, synonym for the redeemed, On armored feet for pilgrim’s eyes searching holy treasure in stone Now a living citadel of a new beginning with no End in three persons. Dedicated to the restoration, the new life, of Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland.