Exceptional The ephemeral nature of society Machu Pichu by estory

Another continent. Another ruin. Another lost civilization Scattered across the mountain tops. The footsteps of ceremonies And forgotten rituals Vanished into thin air. What happened here? Who were these people Hoping to climb the stairway to heaven And the sun god, the great one Who seemed to bring them light And the life giving rains, Watching over their crops. What became of them all? Did these gods abandon them Like the sun setting behind the peaks, Never to rise again? Recognized Author Notes Scattered throughout this collection Ruins will be these poems about actual ruins of civilizations. The mysteriously abandoned Machu Pichu seems to symbolize for me the ephemeral nature of societies, of cultures. And its abandonment begs the question of the fickle nature of fate itself. Maybe of God. Why do some rise and some fall? I wanted that last image of the sun set behind the mountains to be this haunting moment of abandonment. Maybe so it forces us to ask the question of what is going to happen to US. estory

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