Flood the Castle

We created a wave

To save us from drowning,

Mimicking the course of the moon,

Following the flow

Of a world emerging

From corruption and chaos

Clinging to the boards

Of a smashed reality

As we began to rebuild

A semblance of civilization

From our own wreckage,

Finding balance in the wild

And a peace

Non existent in the previous world

We called home-

A place where mayhem ruled

And we praised the most twisted,

Those who broke the rules

They set forth

For the lower to follow-

Rules set forth to keep the mass

In check,

Without question of an authority

Gone array-

Yet again chasing

The buds of a project

Not their own,

But stollen from the people

They were meant to lift-

The people they were meant

To help rise-

We created a wave

To flood the palace

We spent so long building-

The palace we now knew

To be fearful of,

To tare down stone by stone

Until all that’s left

Is the nature it was built from.

Katrina Thornley is a nature poet. novelist, and freelance journalist that resides in Rhode Island. She has two poetry collections currently published, a novel, as well as a short story anthology. Her poetry collections "Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature" and "Arcadians: Wooden Mystics" were inspired by a local park and life in her small rural town. You can find them on Amazon now!

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