>≫A Journey Through Civilizations Poem by Abdul Wahab

>≫A Journey Through Civilizations

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It never takes me
More than a wink of an eye
To travel from the Levant people
To the people of Minoa
Via yellow river, Norte Chico
Egypt, Harappa and Mesopotamia

I’d seen enough falls and rises
Like the ocean’s weaves
Embedded with few moment’s high tides
And receding low ebbs

While living in houses of Uruk and Memphis
I encountered with enough love and hate
To satisfy their basic instincts
Some went too low, some were too great
To preserve human development and progress.

In the course of my travelling
Through the great river Nile
Among the valleys of Euphrates and Tigris
I’d seen wonderful minds
In heaps of war, conspiracy, deception and lies

With multiple injuries
When I laid in the trenches of lust and greed
In the battle fields of Polynesia
I’d seen the indomitable human spirit
How it withheld the cruelties of Athenians and Spartans
And pushed forward the great human civilization

………………to be continued ……..

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ramesh Rai 08 November 2013

The journey is too long we have to complete it. a good write. thnx for sharing

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Aftab Alam Khursheed 07 November 2013

A Journey Through Civilizations the ups and down wisdom and foolishness war and peace everything interwoven lovely thank

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