i am a cathedral
tall and reaching
dark and tunneled
gothic arches kissing
black and marbled
locked heavey foreboding
so beautiful and
so holy, infinite
but in my foundations
vaults and decay
my dead heroes
forever in repose
and buried deep
images and memories
above portray them
in bright and stiff
pieced together
delicate and poised
in shatterable pictures.
i am uninhabited
unresounding with worship
come visit the ruins
a stunning piece
now lying empty.
i will collapse soon
fall to ruin dead
and forget my heroes
in light of the decay
unless you build
support buttress me
help me live and
reach God in my
arches resounding again
and sweep the gloom
from my altar.
