The Order of the Lilies

EMARCEA G FOREST

MAY 17, 2025

The order of the lilies
and passivity
or a golden seal
and the mark of a prophecy

like the ways a silent
revolution finds itself among shelves
across our minds; community answers find
solemn pigeons and barking crows

waiting for the rise of a dove
or the white buffalo and its song
to prance along scripture lines
that beg for the ocean to
turn red and for the water

to become salty on this plane,

but what am I to gain
if it were not for the promise
of a chosen one
to come again?

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