the goddess laughs
a single voice erupts
into a chorus
cacophony and euphony intertwined
sunset over Celestia
dusk in the Inferno
as the goddess laughs

the goddess laughs
a tinkle of Logosmas chimes
glockenspiel in Caer Witrin
radiating hearth heat
the white piles downy soft
on a cold and bundled urchin
as the goddess laughs

the goddess laughs
a voice that shatters glass
a breath that births a hurricane
crops ripped from the earth
houses from their moorings
peasant lives from peasant bodies
as the goddess laughs

a pile of the mangled dead
a battlefield's worth of flesh
starving stomachs churned into
grotesque hunger, empty eyes
gaze into each other, the survivors'
wailed lament, from cracked lips turn
into a goddess' laugh

Penned by my hand on the 19th of Glacian, in the year 837 AF.