romulus and remus

poems from my notes app

Rome is built atop

Countless civilisations 

A boneyard of people who lived and loved and died 

Stacked up to the ceiling 

On top of old ruins

They build anew 

From every failure there is a new beginning 

A cycle of rebirth 

I call to myself to be like Rome 

When one great civilisation cracks and crumbles 

Another one takes its place

Smoothly and serenely 

Rome is a city of ruins

And maybe I am too 

Each time one wall falls 

It is patched up and used again 

Life begun on battlegrounds 

Author's Note

may 2017- still unsure about that metaphor.