Poem: "Constantinople"

[jjhunter]

Posted on behalf of stryck

Constantinople

We built this city
On eternity's blueprint;
An edifice of forever,
A monument to God,

But we live in time.
Time ate the stones;
It drank our health;
It stole our strength.

The city was of the world;
The world laid it low.
We wept at what was wrought.

All worldly things pass away.
We who mourned mere moonlight
Will inherit the sun.

Comments

[aldersprig]

the first line keeps having me singing Jefferson Airplane (Starship?) :-)

But once I got past that - Time ate the stones. Wow. That second stanza is powerful.

And the fourth brings it back up just as strongly.