bell towers
down here among the ruined and the rising I am alien and the children cannot understand tears at the comic absurdity of hope nor the sight of skin thin like paper covering old peoples' hands folded in prayer they cannot comprehend the ferocity of newborn cries nor the fearful stillness of expectation and Waiting down here among the glowering bell towers the silence is apoplectic and it covers both the Quick and the Dead
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