Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Dark Corridor by James Hall

Dark Corridor

Lightly treading on the razor's edge,
an obsidian pool of reflection
remains still except broken by that
deed unmentioned.
Stillness and purity exist here,
bought with the flames of sacrifice.
All is quiet,
the Great Hall acquiesces.

Lined by monoliths,
austere and sterile
against the backdrop of night,
standing silent in defiance
of the day.

A great people raise their heads,
dust clinging
to the roofs of their mouths,
once beaten, longing for the day of.
Hopes echo
against the walls and over the plains.

Cloaked in dark night,
a blood moon delivers the faintest light,
birthing contours of shadow

among the corridors’ rise.

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