Thursday photo #prompt: Footprints #writephoto
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I wonder at ancient footprints.
Did their makers dream of
flying to the stars?
.
Did they worship distant gods
or wander endlessly
looking for a home?
.
If my footprints, pressed in sand,
live for a million years
what will find them?
.
Will we be a civilization lost
known only by our bones
not by our hearts?
.
I imagine ants three feet tall
burying a truth too painful…
such a human thing to do.
.
©Joelle LeGendre
Beautifully sad.
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Thanks. 🙂
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That was such a great last stanza. As I just wrote in response to another post, this, what we are writing here, is our footprint, isn’t it? Our legacy, what future generations will know us by.
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….but will anyone really know us. I often think about what my grandmother’s lives were like. Some of it is written down, but the emotions disappear and only the footprint remains.
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That’s the best we can hope for, I guess 😦
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Those last lines really pack a punch.
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Thanks. I wasn’t sure how it would be received. It’s just the first thing I wrote down when seeing the picture.
I just love your writephoto prompts.
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Thanks, Joelle. This is a really great piece.
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I appreciate knowing that my poetry was well received.
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It certainly was here 🙂
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Yes!
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Thanks.
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Empire of the Ants–always liked that film. Didn’t take a million years. Think it was the 60’s. Nice and probably prophetic poem.
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Very thought-provoking. We are nothing but a dust in the wind.
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I love this.
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Thanks. 🙂
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