And The Walls Came Tumbling Poem by Sean C. Harrison

Impervious the city built by blood
Stood for vast millennia strong;
Its leaden gates like dragon's teeth
Opening only to consume.
Gibraltar rocks comprised its walls
While feasting reigned within its halls.
No care registered for the world
It held in sway with men of might
But strife came not by light of day,
‘Twas while they slumbered in the night.

Inebriated, fatness veiled their vision;
The morrow far assumed they all,
The watchmen's eyes shut in sleep
That night the city sealed its fall.
Gods and men its stench long bearing
The cries of children rose too high.
Its fumes their sovereign eyelids tearing
While men no longer chose to die.

Compelled, colluding just this once
They mingled for this noble cause
Joining hearts, joining hands
They cast away dissecting laws.

Spears thrice honed with shouts of war:
Rain and hail, fire and levin,
Balls ablaze hurled doubly hard.
Its watchmen rousing far too late
The livid armies stormed their gates.
They all confused, stunned by fear
Stumbled clumsily to find
Their efforts futile as they lay bare,
And smashed the walls they hid behind.

And morning found the city razed,
Its smoke ascending to sky,
Their women, children lifeless laid
Feasted on by eager kites.

Now just a tale the city sleeps,
The world rejoicing its demise
But while they slept: Gods, men at feasts
Another slowly made its rise.