this is where it all began <heretic>

i wonder why you have come here
to this place of god's despair
where fallen angels come to pray
where dreams come to die

you stood amongst the barren trees
the withered branches claw the air
like gnarled witch's fingers
with only the fragments of fallen leaves
to prove they once bore life
the sky is dark and dreary
the ground brown and dusty
and amongst these things you stand
alive but still somewhat fitting

i was a child when i last came here
when this place was full of beauty
and now you have beckoned my return
to a time i though i'd left behind

i found you in the shadows
licking your bleeding wounds
and without fear i sat beside you
to listen to your tale
and as you spoke a darkness
crept out from your black wings
and corrupted all the beauty
that made this place special to me

this was the orchard in my heart
that once grew apples and pears
a world of sunshine and blue skies
and of a child's innocent beliefs
in this orchard i stored my faith
wrapped in lush green grass
and kissed by yellow rose petals
dancing in the wind

until you came from the sky
falling in sinful disgrace
like a star that lost its glow

and i listened to your lamentations
without shame you confessed your sins
to me who worshipped your accusor
but strayed to your ill-fated cause

and now you have returned
to where i crucified my faith
burned its withered corpse
and scattered its ashes
so it would not and could not
come back to life again
and now you have returned
to where it all began

Joe Swetel

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