A Light To Guide Us Through The Storm
Hither has and never knowing
How the winds of change are blowing
Tis nigh, tis now, the founding moment
An epic clash found two opponents
Gathered alms and wretched ranks
Tithers call thy hammered banks
Haunting hunters with ghastly quivers
Elder shadows cast icy shivers
Greasy suits and grimy paws
Licking chops and open maws
Once focused arms in deft salute
Whenst seconds tick that proves them moot
Archaic goblins in ranks on hills
Squabble, cobble, giveth nil
Robust fruit that conjures rot
Tis anxious patch with ill-born shot
Nightly trysts with arrows fierce
Vestments hold without such pierce
Soon the crux, the moment fleeting
A balance nay, a tip and teeting
Hours wage, not fit to wager
Sanctions ordered onward major
Giveth none but pray for morn
Pockets wait to be adorned
Empty coffers and bolts at few
Arrested waiting, the dueling two
Murky seas and shores uncharted
Purchase grants but one so hearted
Depth in width and sourced in fear
Yet checkered standards hold in clear
Acridic smoke seems pulled to earth
Contending stewed to what is worth
Bladed poles now tipped with red
Staggered slips and coming dread
Shattering then, that ill-gained norm
Dusting winds find chaos form
Yet vanquish flights of fancy forth
Justice lost now back on course
Tables in the temples crushed
While bloodied troops the light of just
Emergence from the tangled wood
Vengeance wrapped with future good
Robes and vestments a single color
Anxious cries from pseudo scholars
Inflated minds and empty traits
Measured flesh demanding rates
Silence bid the viscous cast
Criers words lost to the past
Wronging weight, a broken yoke
Sleepers pass the modish woke
Walls shored and civic measured
Founding words again are treasure
Bringeth forth the new found norm
A light to guide us through the storm
Additional Reading
R.J. Schwartz is an American Poet and Author.
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