All the President's Memes
All the President's memes;
Rose up into an army of stems;
They grew bold legs to carry them
Towards the good fight.
Though cavalier and sensing right;
They lacked a head to give foresight;
They strayed into a chasmed height
And tumbled in.
They spiralled, spinning through an age;
Passed darkened chambers, retrograde
And filled with colored animades
In sectioned aisles.
Here gall-eyed figures mocked their fall;
With cackles, boos and whistled calls;
Rejoiced the epic fall unfold
Before their eyes.
A voice boomed out as stems rained down;
And pacified the baying crowd;
This mighty scribed the building mound
With an epitaph.
"That you did dare to set back time,
To turn around and redefine,
What Nature has herself refined,
This is your path.
And what you'll meet at bottom's end,
Will be a sad reflection friend,
Of empires built, destroyed again,
And gone from sight"
Copyright © Emmanuel Paul | Year Posted 2020
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