The Tower of Babylon



I awoke with a dull throbbing in my skull
As fathomless words drilled into my head
With an impatient snort I swatted them away
And stared at the scorched, parched earth
With a sort of dread

The land was sown with seeds of rubble
And there wasn't another creature around
It was strange to see such broken magnificance
Upon this God-forsaken ground

I was oddly captured by its shattered beauty
As the merciless sun above silenced each shadow
The silky, black edges vainly reached out to each other
Like a dead man searching for the Elysium meadow

A swirling dust cloud surrounded me then
And with its soft voice, told me to stand
Suddenly the large ruins rose and began to dance
And stretched toward the sky like the cries of the damned

Oh! what a miraculous sight it was to me
As a tower rose to the very crown of the sky
It was strange that the ruins made it so
But to climb it, I dared to try

With each step, my head grew clearer
And the painful words were now like a song
Weaving a beautiful dream of paradise
Which was in my grasp all along

However, the peace did not last
For just as my human fingers reached for the sun
The mighty tower crumbled beneath my feet
And the sturdy marriage of rubble became undone

I seemed to fall forever
And the song became a scream
Plaguing my mind with such acute pain
That I was rescued by a darkened dream

I awoke with a dull throbbing in my skull
As fathomless words drilled into my head
With an impatient snort I swatted them away
And stared at the scorched, parched earth...

With a sort of dread