Monday, October 3, 2011

Ah! The Ravages Of Time! Comments

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Ah! the ravages of time!
Ah! the ravages of age!
The snows more cruel will not be
Against the frozen faces of the rocks
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Emmanuel George Cefai
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Daniel Brick 20 December 2016

A poem from over five years ago and for a Lyric Poet, those five years could have thr impact of a century because T-I-M-E is our worst enemy. As your poem details it tears down the things we build and celebrate and even before we are dust it turns what we create, what we love, what we were in our heyday into dust, so we must witness the futility of our endeavor and acknowledge TIME IS THE MASTER OF ALL. // All that remains for us is to echo Antigone's speech after the gods take her father into their realm: AH, ZEUS! WHERE CAN I GO? TOWARD WHAT HOPE NOW WILL THE GOD-FORCE DRIVE ME?

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Emmanuel George Cefai

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