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By
Ben White
Ozymandias II
Emergency Declared
The vast and trunkless legs won’t travel now
Out of the ancient land once so cherished
Where the frown and wrinkled lips won’t allow
Command to regain what’s long been perished
With pedestals marking the emptiness
Mocking the words and heart that fed the hand
Sculpting the passions doomed to lifelessness
Leaving the colossal wreck in the sand
While the landscape stretches past time’s decay
Ridiculing works erected by pride
When humanity’s hope was cast away
Replaced by walls around the terrified
Though statues created for ego fall
In ancient lands no traveler can recall.
Ben White
Author of the books, Buddha Bastinado Blues and The Kill Gene, Ben White thought he was a poet, only to find out he is not a poet at all. He is a witness. What he writes is testimony.
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