Atlantis: a Click Away

Quick snap of my heels and through a time warp I fell To a place that Plato had written about so well In a lost continent I emerged safe and sound Gilded architecture and pyramids did surround Now having traveled back more than ten thousand years My request was granted as my eyes filled with tears. For I knew the grandeur of Atlantis would fall Succumbing in the last Ice Age to a sea wall Bronze-skinned natives were working, scurrying about And of what was to come, they were clueless, no doubt A society comprised of rulers and slaves Would soon find their homes beneath the Atlantic waves There were ships in a harbor about to set out Each vessel was headed for a different route Some soon embarked for the nearby African shore But many sailed west on a great quest to explore I knew a new continent awaited brave men These ancestors of the Native American I tried to make contact with thousands left on shore Knowing mountains on their land would be the Azores Few would survive as the Polar Cap melted down Their villages would become undersea ghost towns Although I saw them clearly, they didn’t see me I could not warn them of what they couldn’t foresee Another click of my heels and I soared to the skies The only witness to Atlantis’s demise Their technology now scatted throughout the Earth In Egypt, the Americas, it found rebirth Its very existence, debated many years For it had left behind just a few souvenirs The Bimini Road and underwater cities Fuel interests of historical committees *Entry for Michael Falotico’s “Close your eyes and click your heels” contest By Carolyn Devonshire