PETRA's ASHES

No voices here, I stand on hallowed ground

Sinking in sands hide the ashes lost.

A thousand years have seen of Your God

to mourn His peace.

And no one is here to see You now.

And dust to dust

Golden Kings, shatter Rose into stone

Ancient ones are losts and gone

Oh the stars they knew will live again.

Dark the skies they weep lament for you

In Ash, forever sleep.

No faces here, no footsteps echo far

Light of the sand in the burning gold.

I feel You here, your eyes in the night

You se my heart.

And fading the sun is lost to us.

And Roses bloom, faces fade, time moves on, shatters glass

Ancient ones are lost and gone.

Oh the stars they knew will live again

Dark the skies they weep lament for you. In ash forever sleep.

Photographs 2020

Petra's Ashes: The speaker of the poem is at the ancient city of Petra  and senses the loneliness of the ancient world, and the  feeling that God still   is there and can hear.