Ars Longa

A bolt
Transfixing time
Torn space
Blinding bright
Sears retinas
Permeates night
Then fades
Afterimages from
Celestial war
Women weave
Grand tapestries
In commemoration
Threads joined
Depicting deicide
Decapitation destroys
No deity
Gods wax
Poetic lives
Men die
Tapestry survives