A city full

Then:

A city full of idols

is a city of idols

and the business of idols

is big business an industry

employing thousands to serve

and bow, to chase and worship,

to bend the knee to the creed

that wood and stone and paint

control all things.

Now:

We are too educated and insightful,

too learned and informed to bend

the knee to wood and stone and paint;

instead we worship knowledge and

education and celebrity and power

and the pixels we hold in our hands

and the images we see in our mirrors,

too intelligent and advanced to worship

wood and stone and paint.

Now we are superior

to then

aren’t we

Photograph by Peter Griffin via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.