Unsurpassed

Remnants of a picket gate

Hamper our way

A tangling of fruit trees

Pleads attention

Appending, once loved to the

Sacraments of a pitiless past

Weeping cherry and ivy clasp

To this antique structure

Entwining desolation

Lending grace to abandon

A human sanctuary

Tended, only by time

In the hallway, Belladonna

Charismatically haemorrhages

From lesion of inorganic swathe

We gaze, to Nature's patent

As she reaffirms the definitive

A scene replicated

A thousand times over

Recaptures the soul

As exceeding clouds

Sweep the acres of blue

To sunlight's command

Attentions are paid

As piercing company

Greets the eye

Elemental forces compete

To the surrounding silence

Of a lifetime of doubts

Consumed by a heady ambition

Previously remote

Distanced by faith and dream

Briar inextricably penetrates

This mouldering carcass

Engaging reality

With a spicular chide

Fabric flays shard

Tempering suntraps remnant

Echoing the desperations

Of curbed wing

Vaporous undertone

Seeps from pinpricked oak

Suggestive of lives once lived

And memories absorbed

Before, prospect revived each

Verdant blade trodden

On this, desolate ground

Now, paths are carved

Time is stirred

Visions are unsurpassed

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