In the Ashes of Eden...

In the ashes of Eden
searching for its promise
as if it's not already broken

Feet drift through the remnants
in the ashes of Eden
The fire's heat now tepid soot
The flame's height now hanging smog

Hands sift through what's left
in the ashes of Eden
presently and intently scouring
for fragments of a damned-age past

In the ashes of Eden
lush life no longer grows
but blackened living souls
place roots inside this urn
away from fertile soils

In the ashes of Eden
-not the meadows of Zion
-not the terrestrial ranges of earth
Lives stagnantly cycle from ashes to ashes
never blooming or blossoming
between the dust and dust

In the ashes of Eden
smoldering in the dark and gray
the heat fading far away
in the final frozen days