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Building Back Down

TimA
New Member

since 1999-11-16

Posts 1
Sandy, UT, US

0 posted 1999-11-16 11:46 PM

Babylon searched the desert for years
the bleached pelvic bone of the earth
for the place they would meet
their powerless God
To harvest an eternal birth

Brick by
Brick
glazed clay transforms
a flat tower
into a long one
the shriveled sands they live in
becoming a miracle,
molding into a creation

It stretched beyond natural form
To a mysterious universe
they could not own,
fringed by a layer of cloud
parted in ridiculous error
where half-men raced up endless staircases
each carrying a knife
to detatch
a piece of seamless cloak
and sew it into their own fabric
completing a patchwork quilt
they could hide under

Those who could see His face
began Spewing from the tower
with outraged eye open
and found they had no voice
to repel what they saw
praying to each other
and grasping, at their bricks
the construction that had begun
with the fathers, of their fathers,
and their fathers before,
who had dreams
that made them warm
during the night

[This message has been edited by TimA (edited 11-17-1999).]

Kenneth Ray Taylor
Member

since 1999-11-11

Posts 139
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

1 posted 1999-11-20 11:16 AM

A vivid description of the Tower of Babel. A story that is so relevant to our time.

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