history
Effie Li
And we have made something better-
- towers and kingdoms built on broken spines-
- far greater than what the giants of our past could dream, and on their ashes we-
-straighten their backs and the whole thing falls, falls far far below. It crumples if we remove what is beneath yet we must-
- dance and celebrate the victories of which they could not imagine.The past is the past. Break the self imposed chains that leash us to a unbreakable history, break the chains to-
- free ourselves from our sins. We cannot forget those who have brought us here, as we drag ourselves over the steps they carved, we cannot-
-build something upon the ashes of the broken and the ruined. What happened before us was flawed beyond fixing-
-separate from our obligate now
This began as a creative piece on Macbeth and ended as a poem on the nature of history and our role in preserving it