Days In Space

Long before the dawn of man’s history,
They had walked our Earth
The heights they had reached
But then,
This all-but-Divine race perished in a single night.
Sickness, insanity, crime, and all injustice they turned,
Still with high benevolence, outward toward space
In times long past,
This planet was the home of a mighty race of beings.
For me
Even their cloud-piercing towers of glass,
And porcelain, and adamantine steel
Have crumbled back into the soil.
After a million years of shining sanity,
They could hardly have understood what power was destroying them