KADYANDA

KADYANDA

(Mountain-top settlement in Turkey dating back 2,500 years)

By Peter Woodgate

Upon the heady height

of nature’s tantrums

they built you.

Now, your bones lie

crumbling in the dust.

We gaze in wonder

at your disseminated structure,

metamorphosed by the veil of time

and feel humbled.

We, who stand upon this mountain

of accumulated knowledge,

living in a world of nuclear know-how,

anatomical awe and structural splendour,

we, who have tinkered

with the doors to the universe

and tampered with the gates of Hell,

we, who are on the brink

of displacing God,

are suddenly aware

of our embryonic status,

as yet, un-weaned,

from ignorance.

Copyright Peter Woodgate