Pilgrims Come to Pray
- Pilgrims come to pray
- Winds gust harsh and fast
- The Earth quivers and shakes
- Eduring an onslaught from above
- A shaft of fire imbeds
- Itself in the ground
- The lands heave and shudder
- As if in protest to the invasion
- Mountains tremble
- Electricity of the sky stabs
- At their pebbled peaks
- Chanting grows louder
- To stave off the coming cataclysm
- The huricane blows hot
- Keening through white marble columns
- The plains thrust themselves
- Up to the lowering sky
- Halves meet
- The mountains crushed against
- Blackness
- Whole
- Silence
- The chant halts
- Frozen in heat
- Yet the wind still
- Gusts around the
- Columns of the temple
- Pilgrims touch gently in triumph
- Caught in the passage of time.
-KAS 3/25/94
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