LOST CONTINENT

Beneath the waves
Of oblivion
Lay Atlantis
Surrendered
To the daze
Of Babylon
In its sundry glories
Submerged beneath
Earthly clay
And mud
And tons of ocean
Waters clear blue


Covering the vast ruins
Of a continent
Lost to time
And tides
So deadly
So doomed
Darkened memories
Of a land



Where a people
Consumed by comforts
Finest silks
Perfumes
Unchecked lust
Desirous of leisure
Ignored warnings
As to their nature
As children of abundance



Meanwhile the beasts
Of the earth
Fled
Leaving the city state
So high and of great import
To drown
And its people bled
Into the blue
And disappearing for all existence