Transformation

Beneath blasted rubble, the land lies in wait

Calm as it prepares for the impending upheaval

Over the aeons, opposing forces have gathered.

Others measure aspirations like alchemists, blowing glass,

melted, reshaped, shattered, remade, over and over

Seeking a form of perfection from the raging furnace

 

When we reach that day we shall remember,

having crossed so many wastelands and chasms,

cliffs so steep you had to cling to survive for tomorrow,

wading treacherous rivers - the tiger's freezing roar

Our compasses always took us the wrong way,

only to find the destined palace shattered before us

 

A trembling creature gazed up, questioning the emptiness,

praying for deliverance from every quadrant -

a bird, unable to imagine it had ever flown

 

Seasons interchanged faster, spiraling out of control

It is running, hunting, while being persecuted

 

By now there have been hundreds of peace treaties,

so much studying, signing of piles of tedious documents,

such intricate procedures, the dissection of stacks of books,

followed by unexpected wars, sudden collapse, and dark rains

And photos of those we’ll never see in this world again

Painstakingly, we must release hands we always held ...

 

It was only after the last phases of the previous age,

when scientists, scholars, holy men, diviners, rushed -

then the explosion that altered metaphysical boundaries,

a time when men collapsed atop steps, weeping, and dying

It was only after these things that you truly began to decipher

Charting over the distance you’ve come, you know,

that borders once militarized will begin to fade away

 

Further, you continue excavating, following a resonance

Every single day you braved the insurmountable void,

endless offerings, training and arduous repetitions

You remained focused, to attain a new fusing of steel,

an amalgamation of the earth and a blazing comet

 

While blizzards howled, and monstrous machines thundered,

the blacksmith hammered at the anvil by the forge -

showered sparks providing glimpses of potential future

 

Everything broken was cleared away, … for a new space

 

The clouds dissipate as the planet gently hushes,

Silk banners undulate in the rejuvenating breeze,

Hosts of butterflies flutter through the coastal forests

Varied methods, set free, to deliver unified epiphanies

 

From one continent and grieving metropolis to another,  

more and more scions gather, to see auroras paint the sky

heralding the return of the unconditional God-dess -

the one universe in all sustained