Oct 2015
Ancient leviathan,
City in sands
Razed in a roar.
Now silence stands
Taller than your
Pillars did before
As the world looks on
It can’t but abhor
Let sleep find your
Great arches now
Though brought down
They did not bow
For their shadows
Outstretch the hand of man
And the rote of
All religion’s plans.
They did not destroy!
They have not won!
And in undoing
Become
undone.
City in sands
Razed in a roar.
Now silence stands
Taller than your
Pillars did before
As the world looks on
It can’t but abhor
Let sleep find your
Great arches now
Though brought down
They did not bow
For their shadows
Outstretch the hand of man
And the rote of
All religion’s plans.
They did not destroy!
They have not won!
And in undoing
Become
undone.
Poem written for national poetry day in the UK, I am an archaeologist, I studied Aegean archaeology, and covered the levant extensively, It pains me that ISIL are destroying these relics... so I wrote about it.
