To Those Recalled

Escaping into verse,

the base of the tower rumbled,

the ground beneath was shaken

with new cracks inside its walls

 

Escaping into verse,

all towering deception crumbled,

as the self-anointed jumped and fell

landing prostrate and so small

 

Escaping into verse,

the mime shouted out enabled,

his silent thunder raining down

with a message now to scald

 

Escaping into verse,

a new steeple built and gabled

its bell to ring a lyric toll

   —new life to those recalled

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)

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