Word Picture Contest Book

🏆 Pantheon

Pantheon
3d Place March 10 round

Grey and crumbling,
lichen covered memories
hide in the shadows…
         not forgotten
                   but obscured
by the tangles of time.

I run my hands over
their uneven and worn surfaces
and discover
         their hidden strength
                   their hidden warmth.

Stacked haphazardly,
I struggle to understand them.
         I retreat.
                   I stop
as recognition dawns.
What seemed chaotic
now takes on a familiar shape.
I see they form an altar
of yesterdays
in the pantheon

a public building containing tombs or memorials

of my mind.

No longer are they
         meaningless debris...
They are the foundations of my life.

An entry for the March 10th round of "Word Pictures Contest" 
Prompt: Image
Form: Free Verse
Line Limit:  7 - 40
Line Count: 21