The Day the Spires Fell

Inspired by the coverage of the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire.

Embers fall like snowflakes

Scarlet flames lap at the stones

that were left behind.

A choir of mourners

raise their voices from the ground

with hopes that the notes

of "Ave Maria" reach heaven.

856 years of history

float to the earth in the

form of ash.

The heart of Paris

is breaking in two

with the inferno

that blazes on.

Across the globe

tears stream down faces

as we grieve the loss

of antiquity.

The relics of the

past lost to

the auburn sparks

that fill the air.

Our Lady of Paris

reduced to ruins.

©2019 by Ashley Nicole Cameron

Reviews

[CBH]

I'm so grateful that I had a chance to visit before the fire. Such a tragedy, for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Thankfully it will be rebuilt, but it will of course never be the same.