Human Nature, the Archives
Since the beginning of time, history has been recorded in various art forms in caves, palaces, tombs, wherever … proving, if nothing else, that in the sense that human nature runs the gamut of good and bad, it remains, like time itself, an essentially constant factor in an ever changing world.
This poem is a villanelle.
HUMAN NATURE, THE ARCHIVES
Hieroglyphics on a stone wall
revisiting war and peace,
we creatures great and small
Demands that we ignore a call
to heed the bigot’s cause;
hieroglyphics on a stone wall
To each our own, walking tall
in Earth Mother’s eyes,
we creatures great and small
Where pride anticipates a fall,
find religion on its knees,
hieroglyphics on a stone wall
All things bright and beautiful,
compensating for our tears,
we creatures great and small
Lines left barely decipherable
marking out life histories;
hieroglyphics on a stone wall,
we creatures great and small
Copyright R. N. Taber 2009
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