My Tower of Babel

A glory
A wonder
I had big plans

I thought I knew
What glory
What wonder...
Was

I built it
The work...
Of my hands
Word upon word
Precept upon Precept
Line upon line

If I reached
For the sky
For the stars
I could bring
Man to God
God to the level of
Mans understanding

See me high and lifted up
My image fills the sky line
Higher and higher
Now look up to me
See my truth
The power of god

This tower of illusion
I built it brick by brick
It became the dwelling
Place of nothing

City of confusion
All the words the worlds
Disjointed

No one
I know
Hears me now
I speak another
Tongue

The lie I helped
To build
A monument
To confusion

But I hear
My new language
Spoken
Not from the family
I thought I knew

I thought with unity
Nothing could stop us
God knew
The words
Made no sense

Now I try
To find
Those that do

Disjointed and alone
Taken from
All I knew
Now just empty
Words that have
No meaning

The confusion
Was my belief
From the beginning
7/13/2010