This piece was written six months or so after 9/11. It is in remembrance of that fateful day that I now post it to this forum.
A Cardinal View
Twin towering infernos, minimized
To naught by metamorphosed faith despised,
Demonically spiral round the beams
As though from merged apocalyptic dreams.
The suicidal eagles' grisly blow,
Which brightens the horizon's gruesome glow,
Imprints itself on stilled and stifled shock
As misanthropic crows regale and mock.
In quantized grief that elevates sublime
Within poetically rhythmic rhyme,
Humanity transudes to smoke inhaled
By the Divinity's purpose unveiled.
As tentacles entwine lungs thirsting air,
Sound spirits simmer in forlorn despair;
Revealing the eleventh as a sign
Imposed upon your destiny and mine.
With quickening homage from soul bestowed
Within Divine celestial abode,
Mankind's creation's realized,
As Love is beckoned, heavenly disguised.
In resurrection, absent swaddling clothes,
Agape quivers as dark void it loathes;
And rises somberly as wings unfold
Majestically, blinding to behold.
To suffer not would likely tender, too,
Compassionate love, nobler of the two;
Thus, the Divine Plan's mystic management
Throughout the gallows of the firmament.
Now, with humanity at bay, in sight,
Yet, humbled by His meditative might,
He banishes importance far away
To herald in the Final, Lasting Day.
Copyright © 2002 Robert L Tremblay