What Awaits Me
Ekphrastic Challenge January 2026
This poem was written in response to the Rattle® Poetry Ekphrastic Challenge for January 2026 and was ultimately not selected. You can find more information here.
https://rattle.com/page/ekphrastic/
What Awaits Me
Between our first wail and final gasp
A road we must all walk
Through my time I have journeyed it all
Struggled over mountains steep
Rough and hard
Dreaming of those valleys below
Green and peaceful
All my life, I have tried and
All my life, I have prayed
To be granted the grace to see
Celestial light on the day my eyes darken
And here it is
I have come to it at last
Though the road twists and turns
Glimpses of the glow on the horizon
Beams of my final sunset
Warming my face
But in my horror
The final image before my eyes
Be not the chariots of Heaven
But rather of an
Armageddon
That awaits me
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Rae Fairchild (MRB)
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