Part 1
Midway upon my life’s journey
I found myself in a pub in south London
So ordered a drink
I sat next to a man
His face was obliterated
By many eter scars
I assumed each
Scar
Told it’s own story.
And as we sat with
Our ale
I asked:
“Oh comrade
I see your many scars,
And may I ask, What are their stories?”
He sat
As though h were stuck in memory
And answered
“I Have been here since
The people in between those two rivers
Created Cuneiform
I saw the rise of
Sumer, that great civilization
And it’s fall
It fell to the first empire,
The Akkadians
And their emperor Sargon
And I saw their fall
To the Amorites
Those barbarians
And if you followed
The west wind
Zephyr
You would find the
Egyptians
With the pharaoh
And they sent those
Pharos to the afterlife
In their massive Piramids
And north of them
Was their greatest foe
And later ally
Those Hittites
Who built both Hattusa
And a confederation
And if you followed
The trade south
You would find Phoenicia
At this point
They matter not
For they have not yet founded Carthage
East of them
Was the great Minoans
With their many palaces
And they also
Had a labyrinth
And many beautiful bulls
And once those palaces fell
A new power would
Reign in that island of Crete
Those of the Miceneans
Whom i care little for
As i spent little time there
All I did was fight in a war
That great war on the fields of Ilios
With their mighty walls
But I namely remember
How it’s culture
Affected the sons of those men.
And many people’s
Of the Sea
And barbarized our people
They came unto our shores
And destroyed our crops
And killed our people
And after the
Collapse of this
Bronze Age
A new age sprung up
The people of Phoenicia
Traded into the successors of the Miceneans
And changed their sylabury
Into the first true
Alphabet
And those successors
Wrote of that war
Which I had participated in
And those same phoenicians
Founded a city
To rival even Thebes
The one know as
Carthage
With many a trade routes
And one greek,
Of the polis of macedon
Conquered the empire of persia
He was by the name of Alexander
And after his death, his many generals
Split his empire
At the same time
On the west of the sea
A city named Rome
Founded by the
Survivors of Ilios
And those latins
And the other combatant
Was great and rich
It was great Carthage
They got into the first one
When sicilian pirates
Called both into a fort
And they wared
The romans won
After plagiarizing ships
And out of vengeance
The general Hamilcar
Oathed his sons
This oath of blood
Was to never be a
Friend to Rome
After the army of carthage
Conquerd spain
They went to war
And the sun of Hamilcar
Hannibal crossed the alps
With his many elephants
And he surrounded the romans
And ransacked the
Italyan pennusual
And once the romans beat him
They fought carthage once again
And rubbed salt into the ground
And I saw the
Elder Gracchi
Make a name for his family
And his first son
Asked for a crown
And was killed
And his second son
Was killed for land reform
By a man disposed by his brother
That state of itlhy expanded into Greece
And north africa
Though they never reached Gaul
Until the time of
The first man of the senate
Julius Caesar
He Created a triumvirate
With Pompey and
Crassus
He then brought his army
Across the rubicon
And he went to war
With his former ally
Pompey magnus
And Pompey and the senate
Fled to greece
But caesar chased them
And Pompey fled to Egypt
But was betrayed by the
Boy King Ptolemy the 13th
And in return
Ceaser deposed him and
Placed his sister on the throne
And caesar was in love
With the sister he placed on the throne
Cleopatra
And then
He got his
Fore triumphs
One for Gaul,
One for Egypt,
One for Pontus,
One for Numidia
And once he returned to Rome
He was killed in the teater of Pompey
By Brutus And Cassius
And Once they left
Agustus killed them
With Antony
And Antony Became Egyption
And he married Cleopatra
And warred with Agustus
And he lost
And was killed by Agustus
Who became Emperor
And he Created many
Poems
And Art
North of this empire
Was a civilization
Of SeaFarers
And those of the mediterranean
Called them Barbarians
But they conducted trade.”
At this point in our evening
The Pub was closing
And I replied to this man
“You’re story is amazing
But terribly long
Shall we meet tomorrow?”
“Yes.”
Replied the man
And I could barely wait.