Dreams Of Babylon
by Joseph Winter
Posted to Poetry on 2002-03-14 13:51:00
I
Joy to those who have been
Over estimated in this game
Of charades we so poorly
Play as we chase the dreams
Of a sleeping old man to
Asia and back, swallowing
The sun in a single gulp, repenting
For the sins of animal and
Human, writing the memoirs of
An invisible enigma taking the
World by storm as the rise
And fall of babylon bring gifts
From a world only one
Can imagine in a
Child’s nightmare.
II
As for our nation
As for our fears
As for masturbation
As for these tears
Soon they shall fall
As by their law.