Grotto Apparitions 

...it is soft in the waters deep within 

mineral leeching from the walls

rich sediments swirling, sparkling

hot tub membrane party in the shallows 

underneath the ripples lay memorabilia 

shiny, untarnished jewels from past lives 

they get to keep them 

there's no rules you know 

only that they may gift to the land what they wish 

 

it is quiet here 

through the twisting halls 

void of threshold to pass through

it might have always been here 

maybe it was made for them 

some say they found it, when the people stopped worshipping 

place of refuge away from the forests they once whirled through as mortals 

the black mist of control lay through the lands 

a people once devoted to the organic 

now inside a cocoon of singular belief 

of punishment and fear...