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Atlantis shall rise again. She will spear through the currents,
until the helms of her cityscapes
cleave the tides
that have entombed her. In the beginning,
it hurts
as she guillotines
the barnacles
and bottom feeders
congealed upon her brow.
In the beginning,
she bleeds--
she bleeds--
but she heals. Shrugs the brine from her rooftops and hails over the men and women who sunk her Queendom all those millennia ago. As the moonlight crescendos through the stained glass, timeworn prophecies
written in the jagged contours
of greek lettering
reveal themselves upon the pillars:
Atlantis shall rise again.
Ophelia's throne reclaimed only by the one who has treaded
The Great Deluge and survived it
only by the one who is fluent in the language of drowning but has not bowed
to the hurricanes
by the one with hair like raven feathers and dark eyes spun to gold when they look into the sunset
by the one
who is named after a gemstone,
the most precious
of them all--
Atlantis shall rise again
and
I shall rise with Her.
Image Source:
Kida Atlantis gif (n.d.). [image] Available at: http://rebloggy.com/post/upload-atlantis-the-lost-empire-disneyedit-tw-flashing-gif-mini-disney-movie-ch/137364422457 [Accessed 28 Apr. 2020]
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