Tell me then your perceptions of the past <br />Tell me why hard facts are hard today <br />Facts tomorrow, then gone away <br />Do facts, then, rarely last? <br /> <br />Watching the march of time, the artefacts <br />The ruins they continue to dig up day by day <br />What remains of those wonderful beings <br />Who peopled our fables and myths <br />Smoke, mist and other nebulous things <br />Spirited them away <br /> <br />Tiptoe in history’s corridors <br />Crowns, coins and chariots <br />People, peasants, and simple folk <br />Just spirited clean away <br />Where do they lie now? <br />Unknowns jostling in history’s corridors. <br /> <br />Queens, courtesans, mothers of kings <br />Toys and things, necklaces and dreams <br />Smoke, mist and other nebulous things <br />Spirited them away <br />Tiptoe in history’s corridors <br />The modified history of the world <br />Domination, nomination, abomination <br /> <br />Smoke and mist and nebulous things <br />Have spirited everyone away.<br /><br />Rani Turton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/smoke-mist-and-nebulous-things/
