Rome, you overwhelm me
---chandler
monument to religion and myth
---chandler
after monument of war and glory
---chandler
ruins in marble next to graffiti covered bridges
---chandler
next to slums and filled with people
---chandler
Rome, you overwhelm me
---chandler
a living city living in some ghost town
---chandler
with your soulless statues
---chandler
and spiritless churches
---chandler
next to slums and filled with people
---chandler
Rome you hold great art in your fingertips
---chandler
and blood and terror in your history
---chandler
Rome, why are you so big
---chadnler
and why am I so empty?
---chandler
Can I not compare to your busy way?
---Anonymous

i just watched a documentary on rome--you captured many facets of it in your poem--window watcher
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did you guys watch Rome week on TLC too? hee hee hee. Good poem though. With all the supposed greatness of Rome, what did it truely accomplish? A pile of rubble....
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Ahh--but, it was the model for our own republic, it united the world of that time through its road system, and lasted for almost 500 years. True there is not much left of the "Glory that once was Rome" now, but, neither is there much left of the glory of ancient Greece or Egypt. JFC