Safe Harbor

 

I climbed the solemn slabs of stone

Ascending toward the marble throne

The mantle of the sky hung low

A muffling cloak of silence

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With measured metronomic step

I rose up to the temple lip

To gaze upon magnificence

On majesty and greatness

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Inside the hallowed sacred chamber

I stood, like those of countless number

Contemplative, listening

To distant noble echoes

 

Staring upward, awed with wonder

I heard a sound, a gentle flutter

And soft unholy mocking cry

Intruding on perfection

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When the culprit there I spied

My eyes, astonished, opened wide

"What blasphemy!" I nearly cried

What insolence! What madness!

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There beneath the words engraven

A demon perched in newfound haven

A thoughtless cruel and heartless heathen

Desecrating history

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And yet our leader, unperturbed

Sat still and uttered not a word

Gave refuge to a tiny bird

Who'd never known his name

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After long reflective thought

My anger died, at last went out

I understood just what had

Played so clearly out before me

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Even dead a hundred years

A kindly heart can persevere

Give home to beast, give calm to fears

Give hope to men forever

Rising Sun

by BooHa

The Message

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Toward the people sleeping

In silent shades of dawn

Came the message riding

Steel hooves thund'ring on

 

Into minds just waking

Driven hard and deep

The message was delivered

For their souls to keep

 

Into living tablets

Of flesh and blood and bone

They hacked and hewed the message

Of blood, and steel, and stone

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Through the people screaming

The messengers sang out

A song of everlasting

A reverberating shout

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From the people dying

Falling to the ground

The word rode into daybreak

To spread its glorious sound

 

From the bodies lying

In the red of dawn

Came the message riding

The word to carry on