A Journey Through Civilizations

It never takes me More than a wink of an eye To travel from the Levant people To the people of Minoa Via yellow river, Norte Chico Egypt, Harappa and Mesopotamia I’d seen enough falls and rises Like the ocean’s weaves Embedded with few moment’s high tides And receding low ebbs While living in houses of Uruk and Memphis I encountered with enough love and hate To satisfy their basic instincts Some went too low, some were too great To preserve human development and progress. In the course of my travelling Through the great river Nile Among the valleys of Euphrates and Tigris I’d seen wonderful minds In heaps of war, conspiracy, deception and lies With multiple injuries When I laid in the trenches of lust and greed In the battle fields of Polynesia I’d seen the indomitable human spirit How it withheld the cruelties of Athenians and Spartans And pushed forward the great human civilization ………………to be continued ……..