Reservoir of Solace

below the lake of placid calmness imbuing the ruse of ill-defined peace surging floodwaters of fate break through underground rivers enshrouded and silently hidden within self-made walls of our discontent promises of refuge flow in lairs of a ghost river’s crypt beneath cleansing the treacherous tides of destiny purging burdened rocks and sediment of our shoreless earthbound grief to break through the fissures of despair emerging in the cauldrons of hope jutting high building a monument to truth touching the borderless sky of forgiveness frozen bygone tears cache in pinnacle spires glistening in the beams of profound justice reaching for the warming of the steadfast sun to melt the hurt of each grief undone