here and gone
here,
humans
built a world,
lived in concord,
dreaming daring dreams.
believing in the words
of men with wisdom’s glimmer
they sought to sublimate the power
of good and beat their ploughshares into swords.
set on this course, they channeled down dark minds,
installed them in Palladian halls
and granted them the powers of gods.
in mass destruction’s questing,
these tricksters broke apart
their sacred pledges
until all men
were simply
dead and
gone.
--iamacamera, 2009
