Nicholas Browning

Story of Our Lives

Sweet, though fragile maiden,

   Awakes in spite of desolation -

Bruised, poor bludgeoned thing,

    Serving the wicked a constellation.

 

A comet visible to the damned -

   Men such like me;

That have prevailed through edged wit,

    Knowing the horror, of disparity.

 

Its not been easy, has it?

   Aware of nothing in grander sense.

Piling forth a willful drive,

    Renounced of prior innocence.

 

In faith, to be revered,

   By all that see the weight -

That has sprawled atop your conscience,

    Triumph vivid, and taken shape.

 

Never to know the glee you brought

   The sky, in your remorse;

Lest the land be covered in sin,

    And life left broken, all the more.