The pompous doubted the scrubbing of the lava flows at Pompeii,
sitting high in their castles that dissolved beneath them
as they melted into the common mass
becoming stone monuments to extinction by fire.
The sinful scoffed at the prophets of doom
and fled not the lust filled walls of Soddom and Gomorrah,
even one who ran, turned back to look with remorse
upon what she was losing and became a pillar of salt
a crystalized monument to vices mourned.
And as huge waves washed over Atlantis those who chose
not to struggle swallowed the sea and became fish bait,
as a civilization was erased in a sudden wave of nature's fury
grinding the flesh into sand blasted monuments to those forever lost
beneath the ocean's grasp.
Even on a smaller scale, the Amelia Earhart's and the Dr. Livingstone's
and the M.I.A.'s from all wars became immortalized by the methods
in which they parted this world without a trace,empty ground
holding hollow coffins marked by monuments of granite
to all those never recovered by earth.
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