ivory flakes

elephant tusks harvested for ivory towers truncate the wisdom of time blizzards hail snow flakes weather a storm or two before they melt into memories Babylon refutes Jericho an eye for an eye that money can’t buy Rosetta’s stone gives a clue to incomprehension and sometimes the monolith takes on new meaning when frosty crystals meet eternity in shining armour Midas touches mammon and greed blistering peeling forms scabs on lost conscience and souls the snow flake melts because it knows about destiny eventually ivory decomposes once humanity has died