Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Buttress Ruin

Buttress Ruin
Dr Abe V Rotor

In memory of my deceased friends and co-workers in government: 
(L to R) Ted, Rene and Mel. Photo taken at Allacapan, Cagayan circa 1978

A dozen men in armlength full
Measured your base like the fool,
Whose ladder a Lilliputian to your crown,
Until the day you tumbled down.

You are for the Book of Guinness in size,
For years you held the prize;
But your singularity on the landscape
Brought your fateful state.

Heaven's wrath on greedy men,
The Delphian curse and folk's omen
Reduced you into a ruin for ages
Mocking the prophets and the sages.

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods, 1995 Megabooks
 

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