From ancient Egypt
To Greece
To Rome
We blossomed
And then
Imploded
It’s a story
That repeats
It’s a beautiful world
And then
An ice age
It’s philosophy in Greece
And the famous collapse
Of the wise
It’s current America
As we sit back
With a beer
And a smoke
And watch it all come
Crumbling down
Around us
No one gets up from their couch
To help each other out
We just
Change the channel
It’s a story
As old as time
The ego
Consumes
And then
Assumes
It’s a little knowledge
And all of a sudden
We think we know a thing or two
When really it’s just
The birth of a new ego
Fatally flawed
Us hairless monkeys are
Staring into the eyes of the future
With the same road
In our rear view
The lines
zip by
As time
Zips by
7.2 billion me’s and you’s
And still
No one really knows
What’s true.
-C.H.
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