Ruin

Out chasing kites and dragonets, loosing the track, jerking out of scrubs
Getting clasped by the creepers of a tumbledown stone wall
Shattered gargoyles on the ground
Their eyes staring up on their pebble-drooling congeners and on moss grown sculptures
Beheaded dismembered marble figures
Corroded disembowelled marble humans
Marble limbs sprawling. Marble heads nuzzling
Marble genitals gaping and heaving in the grass
Marble fig leaves eroding on the compost heap.

Friezes on the walls where grotesque granite creatures revel
Stone reptiles strangling stone gryphons
Stone maggots consuming the struggling monsters
Stealing through, you'd expect to find the skeletons of the
Sleeping Beauty's wooers in the hedges and perhaps her spindle and the witch inside.
Inside Rooms without walls
Columns without ceilings to support
The capitals shedding dead
Acanthus leaves which descend in slow
motion to become parts of the rustling on the floor
Doors leading nowhere. Stairs spiralling into open air
Formerly secret passages now exposed, leading deeper into the woods
In one of the rooms a pile of tiny bones and a pointed hat atop of a tiny skull staring into the corner
Strange... it seems as this palace decayed so quickly as if someone wanted to get rid of it
As if the entire host of Seraphim gathered in zenith and wept it away with toxic tears.