On a brazen shore
In southern Alabama
Thousands of years ago
Where false idols fell
In a barren waste
By a rocky cairn
By a boat's dried ruins
By a sun-bleached skull
There washed the waves
Of a long dead storm
Which spilt the blood
Of a kinder soul
Than any now walked
That wilted beach
With greasy kelp
And slimy fish heads
When a ray of sun
Broke the clouds' dark pallor
And a child walked free
For a moment.
It was a start.
Beginning of the end.
End of the beginning.
The death of death.
Copyright 1989, 1994, 2019 Miles O'Neal, Austin, TX. All rights reserved.