Best Poems Written by Nathaniel Brown

Fall of the Rainbow Bridge

All is burning, cinders and ash
		flakes float in black rain,
		falling on a ground
			of clinkers and flinders.

The hand of ruin traces sigils
		of chaos and strife
		on broken city walls,
		within which rats awaken

They are the true rulers of destruction,
		living cloaked with shadows,
		in any crevice or crack,
		hunting bones and burnt flesh.

Their rivals, jet-black birds,
		massing on heights above
		in their murders
		and raucous unkindness'.

After Ragnarök, the still silence
		is broken by the raspy flutter
		of a million wings,
		echoed chittering of uncountable hordes.

What life is left
		does not weep.

Copyright © Nathaniel Brown | Year Posted 2025