The exercise:
Write something in or about: the ruins.
Found inspiration in a National Geographic article about the search for Cleopatra's tomb I was reading earlier this evening.
Mine:
Once,
Many years ago,
A temple stood here,
Though most wouldn't know.
For the desert,
Patient as Death himself,
Has reclaimed these holy grounds
For itself.
There,
An altar gleamed,
Brighter than the sun...
Or so it seemed.
Behind its shelter
Priests shouted and swayed,
Demanding their fickle flocks
Nod and obey.
Once,
Not so long ago,
A temple stood here,
Though only I know.
Now all around
Looks exactly the same;
But in this very spot
They worshipped my name.
