Cast Lost Ways

Today I pray for those
wasted and unthought for
those whose God
has been cast
into disharmony
loss of sanctuary
pitiful recognition.

Whence forward
to yesterday
one might
remember you
forgetting nought.

There are only
seven paths
seven scrolls to be read
passed in exile
from the dead
seven days of denial.

Paths, scrolls, and lightened days
forever now in lost, darkened ways
how many these
these patterned wives
bring the crown
O foundation lives.