Renaissance Unfulfilled

RENAISSANCE UNFULFILLED Glorious! Glorious! Renaissance Brought humanity to new heights Of unbounded creative power, Look at Florence's splendor Experience its Medici majesty Inhale its inebriating beauty Intoxicate your very senses With perfect, mastered imperfections Of tiles, towers and frescos, There my sensibility awoke To a persistent, clamoring anomaly Amongst fashionable vain crowds, Strolling with contemptuous disdain, They pretend not to see, Raw,unadulterated beauty, There they stood numb, Fugitives of negated dreams, Breathing, Ebonic statues, Perfect creation, muted, invisible, Staring painfully at the horizon, Longing, no doubt, for Sunsets of Africa skies. E. G. Fialo