A phoenix flies casting mighty shadows on white pyramid walls
On confident wings it saws higher and higher
Beneath its form raging flames lap the tortured and twisted ruins of an empire
Spirals of smoke reach their clammy fingers towards the stars
their blanket concealing the destruction which lives now in that valley ...
Earlier, unearthly detonations had rocked the earth
a multitude of falling light spectres came from the heavens
which awoke with a deafening banshee scream
before turning the daylight into blinding incandescence
Many of there invaders descended; screaming were the mortals who saw
Hapless spectators vaporised into macrocosmic particles in a millisecond later
their souls trapped in the melting, pulverised atoms of their mortal form
Then the earth changed from a melee of madness to preternatural silence
all was still; all was in darkness as plumes of destruction hid the sun
a nation was lost; destroyed by a nemesis and a nuclear age came to a stunning close ...
This had been a fertile land
An ancient place passed from generation to generation
memories of the ancestors recorded in stone
until a tyranny arrived which opposed the ruling force
and turned healers into killers
abusing the energy produced by the awesome generators
pyramids of stone of dazzling white
testaments of a timeless technology of which this nation was renowned
But such was the perverted desires of the darkness
the end of peaceful times approached
and the need for protection from the evil eye was born
few mortals could deny the compulsions of that mesmerising stare
demons in human form soon gained total control
seizing ownership of those holy structures
experimenting with the atomic structures of life
producing the ultimate weapon of destruction in the shadow of those monuments
Reaping total destruction on neighbourly lands
Ending those conflicts in such a horrific way ...
And as the phoenix rose out of the rubble of that destruction
know the memory of those times was written in the texts
hieroglyphs exist which depict this war; this doomsday scene
and of this land there is the ultimate recording
the soil is radioactive and deep within there are traces of the fallout dust
those fertile lands have changed to arid desert
the pyramids have lost their quartzite cladding & their golden capping
but the demons still adorn the structures there in hieroglyphic form
for the demons are depicted there as the Egyptian gods!
Matthew James 1 January 2003
