I’ve been roaming through the ruins
Finding the foundations
Sifting through the centuries;
The nativity of nations
A pantheon of the powerful
Creating colosseums
Stones torn from a temple
The remnants of religion
Even obelisks from Egypt
Claimed from Cleopatra
by Romulus and Remus
Are repurposed by St Peter
I’ve been roaming through the ruins
of Mankind and his motions
Sifting through the centuries;
The nativity of notions
Walter de Jong
- Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #34