What Remains
(Statues and Monuments)
by Jean Jones
What remains?
The pyramids, the oceans, the mountains, and the moon.
After the Roman Empire and the breakup of the British Empire,
what remains?
The pyramids, the oceans, the mountains, and the moon.
The rest lie buried in ashes, and decaying statues
and as the living decide what to do with those statues,
the question is asked, "What remains?"
The answer is the same:
The pyramids, the oceans, the mountains, and the moon.
The rest lie buried in ashes and decaying statues
© 2017 Jean Jones
Jean Jones teaches English as a Second Language Basic
Skills for Cape Fear Community College. He has an MFA in Creative
Writing from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and
has a book of poems available on Amazon.com entitled Beyond
Good and Evil. He has had poems published in Aphelion as well
as Horror Zine online.
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