What are these faces we have
but the graven images of what went before.
Every face, every feature
of strength or beauty
reflects someone who survived
in the genetic pool.
We’re so many and so sanitary now
with our educations and mass media.
But then, during most of man’s growth,
men survived by strength and brutality
and woman by their sexual charms.
Tumbling fortunes on stages so small
that the next feudal estate was legendary.
From dark ages, lost dynasties,
and forgotten lovers
come our faces that have seen
and been much.
And we wear them
and think all that is lost.
gallagher
11 feb 86
Irvine
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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