Blinded by Pride for M lady Helen

narrative verse

 

 

Blinded by pride

 

Before recorded history.

Were men truly uncivilised?

or are we merely ill advised

and misinterpret what we see.

 

Some ancient monuments still stand.

 Which we cannot explain today.

How were they built? No man can say.

Although we strive to understand.

 

Suggestive of technology

which is unknown to modern man.

We can’t explain it no one can.

There is no reason I can see.

 

There should not be technology

which we can’t duplicate today

Which somehow somewhere went astray

which brought them down eventually.

 

But modern man cannot accept.

That we too may have gone astray

and blunders blindly on his way,

As did the others I suspect.

 

Before the great catastrophe

 reduced them back to primitives

 Perhaps we do not want to see

 a parallel with our lives.

 

Cursed by our curiosity

Mankind meddles where he should not.

Condemned to act impulsively

the lessons of the past forgot.

 

Perhaps in time mankind will learn

there are some things we may not know

 or we will vanish in our turn.

And leave only ruins to show.

 

The heights to which we once aspired.

New races will investigate.

 By remnants we have left inspired

 and no doubt confidently state.

 

They are much wiser than we were

as we are inclined to boast today.

Each generation seems to prefer

 to think theirs is the only way.

 

May be its true we’ve reached the peak

The highest point our race can reach

and that we have found what we seek.

I rather think events will teach.

 

 That in due course this is not true

We too will vanish without trace.

and clear the way for something new

As early races had to do.

 

2-Oct-08

 

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[Donna DeLong Matthews a..]

Cursed by our curiosity
Mankind meddles where he should not.
Condemned to act impulsively
the lessons of the past forgot.

Oh Truer words have never been spoken
This was a wirte that makes the reader dig
deep within. Sometimes more than not a place
I would rather not visit.
Wonderfully done
Hugs
D