History Wept

A cavalcade of human history

Shrouded in mists of mystery

Empires rise

Empires fall

Grand edifices are erected

Only later, in war, rejected

Time and tide

Walk or ride

We are most of us merely observers

A few attempt to become preservers

But even those chronicles kept

Fall to ash as mankind wept

We try to learn, to grow, to become

Yet to vain temptation we succumb

Perceived permanence is only temporary

As monks pray at eternity's seminary

All we have done, experienced, learned, achieved

Is but an illusory image by which we are deceived

We none of us know the final answer

Is mankind to earth savior or cancer?