This Broken Age

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Bask in the sunlight of a broken age, More fire than light; Rage.
A coil of thread as thick as the basilisk
That wound round struts and spires
Of the white castle.
The flag is blue and grey
Mess turned to pattern-
In memory of chaos, to order.

Garden like topaz;
Studded with dandelion,
Where no arm
Had dared weed.
Then studded with feet-
Still not truly touched.
But for a rough hand,
Cold. Stone.

The sun in your hair
at the birth of your death,
In eyes- now endless
But ended.
The garden is hewn
With ruby now,
No more than the flowers
Bow their heads.

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