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They had long hated us and with such vigor it blinded them to our superiority our brave republic our hot running water But what people, after all embrace their invaders And there were other factors Britton was lost Gaul a deficit The gods, in their death throes brought floods and fires shriveled harvests, soured wine I owned land then a small vineyard two fields of soft wheat But the god of war is avaricious all around me fell to taxation while in the Germanii trees famous legions fell their mastery at war rendered obsolete by the invisible enemy Our emperor sad, weak man betrayed by the son to whom he taught betrayal could not comprehend there would be cost for his actions A few protested our instability but a greater number found it easiest to sing of old glories to shroud the present with the past When the walls fell it was so grave a shock our dreams will shudder evermore I have seen it again and again I see it now All rights Reserved |
Selected Poems
2010