As Old As Stars

by Juan Manuel Perez

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twelve tet'rons ago
when this world was new to us
when the founders came

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we built great cities
with grand temples to our gods
per social contract

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we built crystal roads
from all this world had offered
wasting no resource

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we built shopping malls
to remind us of home’world
what we left behind

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we built everything
in the likeness of before
as our tradition

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now to this tet'tron
is all this place could handle
acts as old as stars

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all Great Migrations
begin with much depletion
natural unrest