Ascension Day

Quatrain

We sat within the murky depths;

belief just gripped belief's belief.

But now we're up, we rise, rise, rise.

Our stay there had been not too brief.

But now we know our notions were

a world once served by gods and heroes,

something that was needed then,

but now we thrive on ones and zeros.

It’s such a welcome cheerful breath!

For now we've ceased to drown, drown, drown.

It’s such a welcome griefless breath!

Those notions cease to hold us down.

(7 Feb 2024)

Reviews

[Anita Frader]

ones and zero i wonder if this was in reference to binary code.
a thought provoking write

[Andrew John]

Yes, one of the computer "languages". Thanks, Anita.

[FPW]

Sounds like life on Earth; suspended in a kind of purgatory until our time comes to ascend to something better. We hold onto beliefs that suit our world and living but once we ascend all we believed in may become irrelevant. I like the unusual repetition used in the poem. Gives it a kind of judgement day vibe.

[Andrew John]

Thanks, Felicia.