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
Copyright © Carolyn Devonshire | Year Posted 2011
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