Soaring high their heavenly burrow
Shortly trailed by deepening sorrow
Voices resonating the painted horizon
A stronghold of death is one's liaison
As oak crackles within the furnace
The fallen lie waste scolded for menace
Ignited and engulfed bathing in flame
The once never will forever live in pain
(Angels, Lucifer)
Molded likeness of the Heavenly physique
With a sanctified body of spiritual mystique
Devised of the soil by the only El Shaddai
Created to shepherd forever, never to die
Damnation intervened with a forked tongue
From the fruit of pleasure death was sung
And two that were given a simple task
Would curse all else while in sin they'd bask
(Humanity, Adam and Eve)
Two cities with pleasures innumerable
Lust, greed, and deception lead fallible
Love distorted in manners immoral
Bringing forth a skeleton as ocean's coral
The search for righteousness not but vain
Attempts to bring salvation, instead pain
Destroyed by fire and brimstone forever
Raining from Heaven to make the day never
(Sodom and Gomorrah)
Brick by brick and stone by stone
Underlying republic of devious tone
On the shoulders of heroism's strength
Forever to never for life span's length
One rasp in the foundation, cataclysm
Too much to deify spanning the chasm
As sandstorms sweep the lone Sahara
Now ravaged control by those para
(The Roman Empire)
Beautiful is this unblemished pearl
Snuggled protectively in spangled furl
Perfectly constructed for sea life berth
The morn it was forged was joyous mirth
The beasts from across the blue and deep
Snap its vertebrae amidst peaceful sleep
And this inlet that was great in its day
Has tragically fallen along the way
(Pearl Harbor)
Ironclad giant of the lonely abyss
Craftsmanship grand, a portrait of bliss
A voyage to span forever the ages
Conceiving its milestone within the pages
A loyal sailor with expectancy of forever
Failing despite its earnest endeavor
A fray along the belly of this beast
To fritter away for the marine to feast
(The Titanic)
Braced by steel of blacksmith's best
Certain to withhold the defining test
With bolt to brace and brace to bolt
The battery bird with devastating jolt
As over expanded ice creates its vent
Blanketing vastly to a devouring extent
Inflicting casualties to the "never will"
Those words the demons proved unreal
(The Twin Towers)
Pump by pump the beating and flowing
No indication for many years slowing
So full of step, vitality, and spirit
The death angel not found to be near it
Until the eve of the Mighty Calling
The forever to live on this rock, falling
With no forewarning, only aftermath
A brighter and better forever he hath
(A Young Person, My Friend)