11-30-2021, 11:05 AM
Every Victory
In Africa along the Nile
two lakes extend:
Victoria one of its sources
and Nasser three hundred
miles from end to end
both picturesque
Victoria for natural
Nasser for man-made architecture
both named for victory
but over what?
Victoria’s children tore
Europe apart past mending;
Nasser’s dam lake
drowned parts of other lands
which now revenge themselves
with a still higher one.
But the Nile still runs
and chuckles muddily
at all Man’s architecture
for now.
In Africa along the Nile
two lakes extend:
Victoria one of its sources
and Nasser three hundred
miles from end to end
both picturesque
Victoria for natural
Nasser for man-made architecture
both named for victory
but over what?
Victoria’s children tore
Europe apart past mending;
Nasser’s dam lake
drowned parts of other lands
which now revenge themselves
with a still higher one.
But the Nile still runs
and chuckles muddily
at all Man’s architecture
for now.
Non-practicing atheist