How you once were, <br />Broken ivory cur <br /> Now left to die unfurled <br />In an ever transgressing world <br /> That has withered your form <br />With blunder and war <br />And times passed <br />Funded into the vast <br />Along with men abound <br />Planted benevolent in the ground <br /> And timely thoughts recalled <br />To their ages installed <br />Whether right or wrong <br />Found their place to belong <br /> Have all but left you to shambles <br />Victim to destined gambles <br />By humanity’s unaustere devices <br />We’ve paid in insurmountable prices <br /> And all you can do is stand alone <br />A world of retention locked in stone <br />Oh how you’ve been wilted by human err, <br />Lovely and sad, broken ivory cur<br /><br />Jeremy D. Grimes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ivory-cur/
