Silently, with no emotion, I watch
The world around me shrink day by day.
Continents only a hand span away.
Plane's like childish toys,
Shred the sky above me
With increasing speed and brutality.
People still wonder in herds,
Sniffing the air, lost and perplexed.
I sit up, alert, my body taut.
The multitude, roaring in many voices,
Yet still one phrase is clear,
My body starts to tremble and shudder in fear.
They have build a second Tower of Babylon,
Does no one remember the first one's fate?
I watch as the world around me
Diminishes like a pierced balloon,
Mankind loosing their stature with it.
Appalled, watch as your humanity decays.
Insignificant moments? Time dwindles.
We become lonelier in always larger crowds.
See that sign? DETOUR…
All roads you use to escape,
Blind alleys.
Delusions of greener pastures,
Dissolve around the next bend.
And these poems,
Written for no one.
Canvasses full of nostalgia
That delineate every superficiality.
The tower of Babylon,
A beautiful but inhuman place.
Forever further away.
Was it an advance or a mistake?
The tower of Babylon.
Forever further away.
Forever harder to escape this place.
The tower of Babylon.
Does no one remember the first one's fate?