Shattered

He looked at the darkening clouds,
growing with the gathering crowds.
Faces falling with every beat,
there anxious stares he couldn't meet.

In him their faith so quickly placed,
power given and in it their dreams laced.
The rising tempo so quickly did abate,
as just as quickly arrived their morbid fate.

And as the rain began to fall,
the downpour grew to engulf them all.
Fiery souls were quickly quenched,
as all assembled were swiftly drenched.

His hubris led them far astray,
looking for some not oft beaten way.
And in his foolish vanity,
slowly slipped his sanity.

Fate did not ordain what had become of this,
and lucks tender touch did his people miss.
Towards ruin and suffering did they walk,
and stepping into the abyss they did not balk.

A lesson learned there was to be drawn,
even before the last drop of rain was gone.
A faith shattered but in it a faith renewed,
and through the break a new world viewed.