The Question of Destiny
Louise Amkaer
[amkaer@hotmail.com]
A towering obelisk
decorated with golden hieroglyphs
bears a veiled enigma
no one has solved.
Perhaps. . .
It was meant to stay
in the buried shadows
of an ancient tomb
rooted in the remote hot sands
of an ancestral civilization.
Perhaps. . .
A monument of its size and tonnage
was not meant to be hauled away
past fields on the banks of a river
with blue sky above and water beneath
to a foreign land without understanding.
Or perhaps -- that was its destiny.
Today it stands
-- enigma within --
in a city of the world.
© 1998 Anna Louise Amkaer, all rights reserved
appears here by permission
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