The New Babel: A Poem

A fallen city, filled with lost souls
The ancient ways stomped out
How men became as fiery coals:
Used up and full of doubt.

“Shut off! Ignore!” (the prayer within)
A sense with which God calls
All men to repentance from sin
“Just feel, feel, feel, then fall!”

A thousand years of men, awake
Unto their hidden depths.
The New Babel: modern earthquake
Has made our souls inept!