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Whispers Beneath the Stone
Descend the narrow stair, where torchlight fails,
and bones are stacked like books in forgotten halls.
The painted walls exhale their ancient tales,
and every footstep wakes the sleeping calls.
A lamp of tallow gutters, shadows sway,
the canvas of the dark is thick with names.
In every niche, a face that faded gray,
still murmurs softly through the vaulted frames.
"We lived, we loved, we labored under sun,"
the catacomb recites in hollow breath.
"Now stillness keeps the record of our run,
and silence wears the colors of our death."
I pause before a fresco, cracked and pale,
and hear the dead exhibit, one by one,
their stories hung like pictures on a rail,
in galleries where the living have not come.
Two Men, One Sabbath Table
Before the canvas of a weary man,
the rich one speaks, his gloves of kid and gold:
"Your coat is threadbare, friend, your purse a sham;
you beg where honest men have bought and sold."
The poor one answers, quiet as a stone:
"I hold my name though every coin is gone;
the alms you flaunt were wrung from others' sweat,
and Heaven counts the debts you won't forget."
They stand as strangers under gilded frames,
two sons of Abraham who bear one name,
and neither hears the other's breaking heart
beneath the painted saints that keep them apart.
Promenade Between Frames
I drift through rooms where silence hangs,
And every wall holds breath it bangs
Against my ribs, a quiet plea
To stay before the next canvas, free.
The steps I take are slow and small,
A pause between each painted wall,
Where oceans froze in cobalt blue
And sunlight pooled in gold I knew.
Each frame becomes a doorway wide,
A world I enter, step inside,
Then leave behind with lingering feet,
Reluctant to let its beauty retreat.
So on I wander, unhurried, slow,
The promenade a river's flow,
And every painting, once passed by,
Still hums within me, soft and high.
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