I stood on the top step
The loud voices were screaming...

With black clouds billowing across the stone
Upon a high rise were no sun has shone...

Gazing back I see all the things,
All the things I should have said...

The sepulchre has lain undisturbed
Time itself never stole across...

With long lists of names carved in the stone
The burial mounds of the defenders unknown...

With a warcry loud that broke the stone
The earth trembles as it gives a moan...

With accurate precision they laid the stone
Brick by brick erected the framework's bone...

Tears fell onto the velvet lining
A silken voice floats up in harmony...

Amorous gazes pierce his soul
Her curving lips laugh at him...

He pours out his devotion unto her
She accepts his attentions without a thought...

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The icy fingers...

Flamboyant riches dazzle the eye
A smile worth a million words...