Eric Ashford Poet Free verse

The Edge of the World

Of yore, a gold-gilt structure stood tall
upon a mountain
there it remined on for ages
as an ancient vine-veined temple
a crumbling ruin tottering
on the edge of the world.

Within it a ghostly priest dwelt 
waiting long for a sign
shuffling from one alter to another
while the edge of the world
drew ever nearer.

Then all tipped over….

some say it was always a heap of clouds,
just a hollow construct.

The mountain it was built upon
simply melted into nothing
a massive shrine tumbling away.

Now there is nothing to hold on to, or see,
nothing to build upon, just endless sky
where all falls as a feather swept into
a bottomless well.

This allegory
is the tale of a religion that required
too many gilded girders to hold it up,

or it is a parable of a Mind
that knows naught of its power
to deceive or create.

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