Megalomania and chauvinism mar the brow of all Earth’s empires!
"We first and furthest! It’s my BLOODY world!"
Persia’s claim of Iron-Age settlements on Mediterranean shores:
With Abraham's faith and Greco-Roman tragedy,
Our pillars and tiers reach from Persepolis to Parthenon!
Why! Al-jabra the language of the universe transcends all!
China’s order and road reached furthest:
My Song of books, fire and fury!
Tsunami! The world’s rainbow white coat!
I will carry you all into the future once more!
France’s kept religious heritage in truth and fact.
First to break an EU crown and gain one of thorns,
Enlightened to waltz twixt subject and citizen.
Of English conception, foundation et évolution!
The British Empire! It’s alive!
Our individualism not subject to Russia or China’s vast expanse!
Roads of steel we built spanning nations, now continents.
The language of business, a special relationship; father and son.
The German Empire; my British toes he claims!
Publishing Gutenberg’s Song and the west’s industrial revolution.
A symphonic soundscape, with Bismarckian Model the modern welfare state;
Civilisation was mine!
Our American dream born of philosophical rape.
Follow the well and you’ll find two Americans: pilgrim or fortune-seeker.
I conquered a world and the space beyond and incepted the silicon chip as Pluto’s 20C prodigal son!
An information superhighway longer than any road! A tree of souls no less!
‘ taller than any of ye’! Put ‘em awp! Put ‘em awwp!
To Africa, Ancient Kings, Pharaohs of Europe and America’s eternal debt:
It is my face framed in perms and curls, tracing the Greek empire now hidden by China’s rainbow.
We brought coffee and agriculture without which the world would yet sleep!
Our rhythmic syncopation of hunt still teaches your bodies how to move!
The Spanish perfectly suffuse all humanity I find,
Where I hope to finally rest until the next Tsunami breaks!
