Ashes To Diamonds Poem by Kevin Patrick

Spectacular sunrises burst forth from the night
Glowing, like candles that pierce through the eyes
Then it settles it's in waves that obscure the sky
Leaving a trail of blind apocalyptic light


Now crimson rushes, in frenzied blossoms
Trickling downwards with purgatories grace
So calm and so pure, it can peel a child's face
Like the waning leafs under earth's final autumn

The windows are shattered to billions of pieces
And the metal is melted from aluminum sidings
The shackles of rooftops are torn off and flying
As the world that we've built now finally ceases

The suburban ambitions now fade into dust
The corner shop and the pub are memories gone
And the fresh trim prints of manicured lawns
Are but burned out remains of incinerated crust

And I run to the window to take in the scene
But I'm frozen by seconds that turns into years
My Hearts off the tracks, as I stare dead at the Fear
For the play is now done as if in a dream by a dream



And as all my tears swell, as I face my last breath
I think of all things that once was and are lost
And ashes to diamonds so was the grand cost
We only learned peace when we had to face death