Faith Undone

Faith Undone

No marker on the grave

Where buried is our faith,

No joy in the world

That we betrayed,

Blood flows freely

In ruinous rivers,

Irrigating nightmares,

Reaping a tragic harvest

Effortlessly achieved;

A birthright

Of the clever enemy

Humility left untouched

And compassion abandoned,

A gift

Evil hid in Glory’s cloak,

Death delivered by War’s hand

A gift we drank eagerly

And we proclaimed gratefully,

The thirst unquenched,

The cup poisoned,

Revenge and pride

Spilled ever more,

Until maddened we consumed

All we once were

And all we would ever be.

Hostage With Wings

I am a hostage of love

A willful prisoner

Bound in dreams

That with hope do sail

Far across the sea of time

And across space,

Meaningless beyond moments

Eternal as love blooms;

The flower unwilted,

Given to joy

At the precipice of tragedy,

Given wings by tenuous faith

That I may learn to fly

And then fear not the fall

That ever near,

May never come.