Archaeology

 

“Archaeologists” by Giorgio de Chirico

 

 

when they dig us
from under the rubble and ruin

will they find what
it was we forgot to remember

will they know us
from remnant inapt iconography

merely another
failed culture succumbed to disease

a congenital hubris
its weight of gargantuan microbes

sufficient to topple
the temple erected to temperament

long gone astray
of foundational principles leaving

the holy of holies
caved in on its sacredmost parchments

dead documents
turned with the bones of enlightenment

back into dust
in the dark of pre-civilized days

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“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”
– Elie Wiesel

 

 

From my books Onionskin and Legacies (vol. 2)