Stepping Out of the Grave

You have to be immortal
to placate the gods

Time reaffirming
all memory of

Creation, destruction,
eternity looms

For those who believe
—appeasement exhumes 

(Calvary Cemetery: October, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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