Maher as always a very powerful, intriguing and personal (I felt) write.
As you know I like taking your pieces bit by bit an analysing them but with this I just can't its too good

Washed down by the wishes
of the whisperless dead,
weighted with worry
whilst we water and wed.
^^
This part stood out for me.

Em

Wow Maher! This is amazing! Your visuals were spot on and kept me engaged all the way through. Just beautiful! Well done-

Maher,

I really, really adore this poem!

"whilst we water and wed"

excellent line!!

Your visual display and word usage was fun, vibrant and just wonderful to the eye of the reader!!

I've really missed reading your poetry...partly due to the fact that you haven't posted in a while and also because I've been overseas for a bit. Anyway...glad to rectify this today :)

As always...you just seem to capture this reader with your wording...it's so very elegant in an olde worlde way..which I love when it's written properly...

of course I have a couple of suggestions *cough*

"Can thou even hear us now?
Hast thou lost thy direction?

the two 'thou's ' are on top of each other and I found that distracting somewhat so..maybe try to change one of them?

plebians..should that be plebeians?

Regardless...this poem reminded me of certain feelings I had when I held a mass in the catholic church when my mum passed away (her wishes which I honoured but did not agree with). It was dark..hard hitting and, as usual...pretty awesome :)

Excellent. Really loved the visuals Milly x

Maher! Another piece from you!! Very good! I hope i get to hear it soon?! I was bopping along.. loving the imagery! Well done