Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Civilisation

The need for ownership breeds

Contemptuous greed

Accumulating desires

Reassurance of status

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Time will take its toll

Breaking secure illusions

Castles in the air

Even the grandest vision

To dust returns and crumbles

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Raised and broken down

The life-cycle of nations

Nature still holds sway

The mistress of the pheonix

Breathes life into the embers

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For Colleen’s poetry challenge