Repeated Rebuild

By Slingnasty

 Imagine no buildings .  .  .  .  No roads  .  .  .  .  No animals  .  .  .  .  Not even a tree  .  .  .  .
 Imagine      Just ashes  .  .  .  . Ashes settling upon a gentile breeze  .  .  .  .

  Imagine the silence of a world so utterly stilled
  Imagine what it would take to rebuild  .  .  .  .
                               Rebuild from the ashes
                                              of your own
                                                            Mental - Apocalypse



A World  .  .  .  .
                      My world burned to the ground

Helplessly squeasing tight the remains I have found
    
                    Again finding the strength  .  .  .  .
        
                                Strength once more  .  .  .  .

 I start forming the shapes I recall  .  .  .  .
            Lovingly  .  .  .  .
                         patiently  .  .  .  .
                                       Sculpt ashes into visions of before their fall  

            The people
                  The places
                       The events
                            The Hope  .  .  .  .  Rebuild just as  .  .  .  .  All was


 A world in birth  Anew
                Rebuilding  .  .  .  .
                            Ashes  .  .  .  .
                                 Piles of ashes  .  .  .  .
 Sorrow fills each streaming tear
 
 Rushing and falling like an earthquake upon the ground
                        Eachone a shockwave eminating from me
                                         My work  .  .  .  . My ashes  .  .  .  .
                                                 My  beloved sculptures  .  .  .  .
                                                         Like a house of cards come tumbling
                                                                                                            Down  .  .  .  .
                                                                                                     

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Copyright 2012 Slingnasty
Published on Sunday, November 4, 2012.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

I can never shake the gloom
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  • Devilish On Monday, November 5, 2012, Devilish (2658)By person wrote:

    Mental - Apocalypse ........... love this.. hello there you , long time no see, Scholar

  • Slingnasty On Monday, November 5, 2012, Slingnasty (138)By person wrote:

    Hello Dev. Im glad to be back thanks

  • dwells On Monday, November 5, 2012, dwells (4285)By person wrote:

    I'll feel better meself once we get past the elections tomorrow in the USA, and then December 21 too! Meanwhile did I catch a Freudian slip with "gentile" breeze? (HA!). Loving a good Apocalyptic piece, even if internalized, cheers SN!

  • Slingnasty On Monday, November 5, 2012, Slingnasty (138)By person wrote:

    Elections whew dont hold your breath! Lol thanks dwells

  • Magdalena On Monday, November 5, 2012, Magdalena (615)By person wrote:

    I have rebuilt from ashes, got knocked back down along the way, but being a defiant female, I won't give up..... Great thought provoking write S. Always interesting to read. :)

  • Slingnasty On Monday, November 5, 2012, Slingnasty (138)By person wrote:

    Thanks M! If not for defiance where would we be!

  • FadedBlues On Monday, November 5, 2012, FadedBlues (2169)By person wrote:

    ...I can see the earthquake in the structure of this write. intense...

  • Slingnasty On Monday, November 5, 2012, Slingnasty (138)By person wrote:

    Thank you kindly FB

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