THE LIGHT OVERPOWERED THE DARKNESS
Where do shadows hide? When no light is cast?
Dressed in a collar of smoke
The unsleeping structure
Is a building of contradiction
Vulnerable, yet still imposing.
Blown apart
by a quarter-tonne bomb
Built up again
To be a remembrance
Of soldiers who died.
Only whispers of its scars
The shrine once upturned
Now bathed in candlelight again.
In abandonment of grief
They now sing hymns of
Survival and hope.
Where do shadows hide
When no light is cast?
When morning comes
May the light overpower
The darkness.
About the Creator
Paul Asling
I share a special love for London, both new and old. I began writing fiction at 40, with most of my books and stories set in London.
MY WRITING WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, CRY, AND HAVE YOU GRIPPED THROUGHOUT.
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