The Death of a Tribe
A world once held inside,
cradled through the avenues
of the mind, breathing
through memories, racing
across the body's planes.
So fragile an existence
for a nation contained
within this solitary vessel,
all their knowledge, joy, and sorrows,
the many faces now dead
live solely through a lone survivor.
Vanishing as soon as the last
light darkened behind the eyes,
with no children to carry the spark
beyond she became grandmother
of a tribe, keeper of traditions
which stretch back through time.
The world could shudder and cry
at the loss, a civilization
left now only scattered bones,
gone forever a language which will
have no voice to carry its melodies.
How many stories now will be left
to fall away into the dust,
how soon will it be forgotten,
along the paths they once walked,
just as their footprints have
been swept away, so too will the
traces of their long yet brief
existences on this earth disappear.
11:38 PM - 2/7/2010 -
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Quote of the Week: A man whois master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. ~ Oscar Wilde
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