heat burns night clouds apart
the etched
and shadowed spire looms
on high
gloomy, phosphorescent
swimming lights in the ebony-sky pond
above and beyond presenting
holy symbols at their apex
of religion dying slowly
all the way down
to a center for believers
the breeze
shatters light in pieces
swirled in gray madness
wispy sky formations
and vanishing visages
eye hallucinations
heights of insanity
reaching up higher still
where night and rising of sun
smash together in astral collision
exploding brilliant color-
and dawn begins