Stained glass corpses of color <br />Transparencies of souls <br />Caught on somber stages <br />Cast in eternal roles <br /> <br />Prismatic lead framed oracles <br />Frozen at their tasks <br />Silhouettes of entities <br />Woven into masks <br /> <br />Eyes of silent spirits <br />Caught adrift in years <br />Pressed in one dimension <br />Chained in arc-ed spheres <br /> <br />If their voices now could ring <br />Of a choral note <br />Sure it would be shrill enough <br />To shatter all our hope <br /> <br />© 1986 JVD<br /><br />Jane Van Doe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stained-glass-4/
