Phoenix Ascended
Echoes from the Belfry 🖤
For too long those temple walls
were covered in shades of crimson blood;
a palette formed by gaping wounds
gushing open like a cathartic flood.
Echoes of pain pervaded the halls
with the sounds of screams and violence
like a library of horrors returned from the dead
in moments of preferred silence.
An empty throne sat abandoned
as the kingdom crumbled into ruin
Hope, the only offer of atonement
that remained in this state of undoing.
Then the sky cracked open with a thunderous roar
reverberating through the bell tower;
lightning shattered the stained glass windows
in a magnificent display of power.
And as the fortified ballium began to dissipate,
each brick crashing to the ground,
a slumbering goddess emerged from the rubble
and awakened to reclaim her crown.
-Dena M. Daigle, ©️ 2018 ... See more
