To The Eons Left Behind

TO THE EONS LEFT BEHIND

I task myself to now recall
What with history we share at all
The changing of the guards before
The village gate or castle door.
I try to, in context place
The advancements of our complex race
But the growth's not growth I dread
For we are held by common thread
To the eons left behind.

I see this thread and realize
That to extraction it defies
All advancement ever made
For well within its web we're laid.
And unless this thread be broke
Consumed by fire, sent up in smoke
To carry our self-righteous hate
We shall forever gravitate
To the eons left behind.

To the eons left behind I gaze
Through our self-constructed maze
And loudly hear as they are gone
What from them still echoes on
To all there be who want to know
That moving forward thus we go
In search of what may not be found
That keeps us here and ever bound
To the eons left behind.

~Michael Bahm~

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