Commentary and Philosophy Poetry posted March 6, 2024


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What was once honored is now disenchanted

Fallen Angels, part III

by estory

Inside these abandoned cities
We find the crumbling temples
Dedicated to the dead
And dismembered heros
 
Released from the old world
To wander in our own
In loneliness and despair,
Their memories of home.
 
They are the disinherited,
The homeless vagrants
Wild as animals,
Banshees in the night
 
Howling down our streets,
Trying to find their way back,
Recalling the worshipers
Kneeling at the broken stoops.
 
And here the cracked altar
And shattered columns
Where Apollo once stood
In the oracle of Delphi,
 
There the decapitated statue of Athena
Lying across the floor of the Acropolis,
The Colussus of Rhodes
Scattered in the Aegean
 
All disenchanted, debunked,
Undermined by chicanery
And scandal, fraud,
A reinterpretation of history.
 
 




We seem to have many fallen heros across the halls of our history these days. It is a time of iconoclasts, hauling down the reputations of all kinds of figures that we used to look up to. And in the end that speaks to the failings in all men, small and great. Nobody's perfect. Also, changing values in our society as a whole, for better or worse, condemns what was once looked up to and lifts up what was once looked down on. In my view, no matter who are heros are or what our values have become, we are still basically the same. We just honor and condemn different things. estory
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