by John Browne Ayes

Created on: December 28, 2006   Last Updated: May 20, 2007

The earth has bequeathed to us
Its multi layered story
Of civilizations risen and fallen
From their wonderous glory.
Heroes and foes, "born of the gods"
Destined to become mortal dust.
Their grand inventions and armories
Lie fallen to rust.

Blown here and there
Mixed in with the sands of time
Their lives and deeds live on in rhyme
repeated in songs bespeaking their vainglory.
Redundent - its the same old his-story
About lessons not learned
And wisdom spurned.
All have become mere drops of nothing
Compared to the vastness of this universe.

Read my verse
Remember it well.
Comiserate deeply for your brothers and sisters.
Resist not the winds of change.
Shed the too hard chrysalis of strange
Mispreconceptions and self limitations.
Shun false glory and a giftbringer you'll become
Forever imortal and victorious
Over life's wheel transitory.

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