Nortre dame
today, Monday
I watched you
from the popular
instragrammable location
I watched you
you stood solemn
your usual self
spine erect, as men
women passed through
your inner sanctum
on a journey, finding
selfie focused spirituality
dabbling in conversations
honoring you, your vastness
On the edge of you, weary
you stay inward, meditating
accumulating relics, symbols
for centuries, strengthening
your core, you knew
deep inside, about
fire and impermanence
every moment conscious
of your grandeur, details
miracles tolling
in your bell gongs
walkers around your facade
and within your chapel
eager to receive, grace
you learned, absorbing
your own inadequacy
your magnificence towering
indifferent spire like
rose windows reaching
for the pure azure above
iconic anchor, to many many
I watched you
Inside of me
my own pier
falling apart
dismembered
I stand, disoriented
a field trip, became
a page in history
I watched you fall
wondered why, realized
you were only keeping
your promise to the
Creator, by burning
into the earth, seeding
hope, urging us to awaken
from collective amnesia
an ember drifted
with the wind
landed near, my legs
I gave in to my tears
a reality show’ed world
watched hypnotized
streaming live, your
ultimate submission
as if, it was the
greatest show on earth
O God, O my God
stuttered the woman
her hand clenched
over her mouth
hymns resounded
into the empty ravage
of space, prayers
You meanwhile lay purified
in the rubble of your own debris
awaiting sanctuary
in our collective rising
from darkness, emerge
into a golden inferno
just like you
NaPoWriMo 2019
monologue
Kashiana 
So loved this. My daughter wanted me to write on Notre Dame too, for this prompt. I just read this out to her. She loved it as well.
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Oh thats the best compliment I could have ever asked for thank you thank you
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Finding selfie focussed sprituality , what most of us do on on any pilgrimmage
is correct yet we feel elevated and happy for a while
But then every thing is transient and even the building of this cathedral of NotreDam
But the truth the beauty of the spirit of this monument is everlasting
Thus rightly deserves reverence by the poet
EXCELLENT in the context and content
Papa
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