El Morro
Beauty indefinable,
Unreasonable,
Unstoppable,
Without mercy,
White hot
and deadly calm.

Smooth cliffs like marble,
threatening to creep into
your soul
like a phantom in white satin;
Like a god.

A place to rest and a place to
mourn.
Sandstone carved of old,
pouring like thick cream into
soil no less sacred than it is,
cradling bricks and bones
native to this
blood red earth,
and tears that should not be.
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