Civilizations I Gave You Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

See, see,
How many civilizations I gave you.
See.

The civilization of the day

The civilization of beauty
The civilization of dramatists and
Scientists
The civilization of the sociologists
The civilization of the lovers of the
knowledge
that be mad for it
That of nymphs, Sileni, fauns and
Spectacles till
The stars fall for rises
The eye-dazzling dawn Venus-Beauty.



The civilization of the first light of
Immortality
Then I suspended it
Grieving

The civilization of ghosts and shrouds

The civilization of power and glory

The civilization of materialism and discovery
And science
And power and glory

Then the shades came
The shadows fell
The faces darkened
The brows furrowed
And
Issued the Souls
That groaned
Had tears in their eyes
The very Inner Souls:
There issued forth
A new civilization
The civilization of the night

With it parallel
The civilization of the sad
The civilization of the resignation
The civilization of the night with stars and
Tempests and firs and nightingales
And owls and Orchestra of Hedgehogs.
The civilization of the cemeteries
The civilization of the skeletons
The civilization of the tombs
The civilization of the graves.
And these
be still with us, of us,
To us.
These civilizations from
The civilization of the night.