Repaired (Munich - Munchen)

This was written in Germany.

Repaired (Munich)

I.  A dark sky of overcast

was painted

to replace the ceiling portraits

lost in the war.

The lost depictions

conveyed ideals of humanity

and justice,

through the characters of myth.

The cracks 

of the repaired structures

reveal no sign of weakness

below the plaster.

II. The live shells

slept below families

until the installment 

of modern architecture and amenities

required their detonation

to be removed.

The straw,

meant to absorb the waves,

rekindled a lost struggle

and the clear windows

cracked and shattered.

The air however

never stays opaque

but the music

curves 

it into a memory

of fading tiles.

III. The king,

lost in a millennia

of sand,

never dropped

the crystal cup,

leaving one lonely handle.

But to secure symmetry

a metal loop

augmented the other side

and carried

no light.

-Robert L. Jackson