To Those Recalled Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Escaping into verse,
the base of the tower rumbled,
the ground beneath was shaken
with new cracks inside its walls

Escaping into verse,
all towering deception crumbled,
as the self-anointed jumped and fell
landing prostrate and so small

Escaping into verse,
the mime shouted out enabled,
his silent thunder raining down
with a message now to scald

Escaping into verse,
a new steeple built and gabled
its bell to ring a lyric toll
—new life to those recalled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March,2015)