Cremated scrolls
Stripped of lore
Incinerate fealty
In fervent ire
Grey ashes, felled atheneum
Cleansed of heresy, grey ashes fall
Scripture as blade, blades of God
Their scribes’ ink runs dry
In sacred fire
Lifeless heathens, scholars cursed
Undeserved rest
Repast of crows, feast of carrion
Laid in acropolis
Amongst salted dirt
Amongst Salted Bodies
Desacralised souls
Desacralised vessels
Lessons of loss Iearned
Vestiges
Grave silent halls bereft of heresy
Grey ashes fall
Cessation of Saline Rains
Raise no cairns. No remembrance
Say nothing of them
Leave nothing, nothing