The Sacred and the Profane: Poems of Faith, Corruption, & Sacrifice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798199526821)

Silence was always God's first language.

In these pages, ruined cathedrals breathe dust. Broken altars remember blood. Forgotten saints linger in the shadows of collapsing sanctuaries, and prayers rise into a silence that may-or may not-answer.

The Sacred and the Profane is a collection of haunting poetry that walks the thin line between devotion and desecration, faith and corruption, sacrifice and absence. Through liturgical verse, gothic imagery, and meditations on sacred ruins, Barton Seal explores the places where belief endures long after certainty has vanished.

These poems wander through abandoned chapels, shattered reliquaries, blackened altars, and echoing halls where holiness and decay exist side by side. Some speak in the voice of stone and ash. Others bear witness to martyrs, false confessors, broken covenants, and the unsettling silence that remains when heaven seems distant.

Divided into four movements-Sanctum, Corruption, Sacrifice, and Silence-this collection forms a dark liturgy of remembrance, inviting readers into a world where every prayer leaves an echo and every ruin still holds a trace of the sacred.

For readers who appreciate gothic literature, spiritual reflection, and poetry steeped in mystery, sorrow, and wonder, The Sacred and the Profane offers a journey through the shadows of faith and the enduring search for meaning.