Skip to content
Linespedia

Rapture

By doughunt

Topics: Poetry Source: AllPoetry Original source

Always running somewhere, flee the crumbling city The wall won't yield, rooted in age nine days 'till morning The night assures no escape, his hold grows with each star's leave And I fear that dawn forever known never to return A legend of old surely lost with the earth, envisions a lonely figure A lonely figure, an army of thousands coming to us in the dying sun Lost images linger on, remembered, is there hope to scale this height But a burst of sun over the ridge, his arms bringing warmth to this cold earth And high, a rider robed in common, lifts his hand, calls our captor A last breath, the walls assent, silent praise to the sky... Written September 7th, 1976 © on Aug 28 2001 03:35 AM PST   0 • 10

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"Always running somewhere, ..."

Attribution & Rights

Author:doughunt

Source:AllPoetry

"Always running somewhere, ..." by doughunt

For usage rights, copyright concerns, or to report an issue with this content, please visit our Copyright & Report page.

Classified Tags

Related lines

"After the dance, when the music's gone, as the laughter fades, the night is so cold. After the dance, when the leaves go dry, as the harsh wind blows, the land is so old. Memories still wait for me, t..."

"Mystical, shifting changes in evening's hue, with season, stirs the longing, not fully glimpsed but powers the soul like some electric charge that bears resemblance to that mellow dusk that bathes ..."

"and in the falling light, her dying breath extols the promise in the sky of the wonder on approach her majesty transfigured in glory's blinding flash to enter the eternal and fix her destination mourn..."

"Lady of the dawn lives in magic forest, to rise with the sun, life playing in her eyes A smile graces her lips, she dances in the rainbow mist, song so sweetly o'er the glen, wakens a sullen world Lov..."

"Sea wind a blowin' 'cross my face, I'm goin' through time to a land that's fair Time waits a moment, silence steals the torrent and I've so little left to careOh, I'm glory bound, gonna' take it to th..."

"Dream, oh keep me captive enslave me in her secret lair tether my aimless wandering that I might find purchase there Just a moment with her countenance perchance, to heal this fevered brow and compose..."

doughunt

About doughunt

Full Bibliography
Continue Reading

"After the dance, when the music's gone, as the lau..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.