A Dream of Sanctuary

"Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie."
- "The City in the Sea"; Edgar Allen Poe

Death is a woman. Death is a queen.

This piece is based on the great Edgar Allen Poe's "The City in the Sea." It is entered in this contest.