Catherine Wheel
The crowds sang her fate
50 philosophers, she converted-
But not one, would share her estate
She stood, keeping her eyes on God
Her limbs, wrought in iron wheels
Twisting, scraping, breaking her form
Yet her face revealed-
Only the slightest discomfort
The wheels, knowing their blasphemour task-
Shattered. Leaking the bloody essence
Of the one asked-
To carry out her sentence
With an impatient thud,
An ax ripped her soul in twain.
Her heart pumping, a milky white flood,
That hallowed the ground
This poem is about:
Our world