Ghosts of Enlightenment Past
An acrostic elegy in free verse
Published in
Jan 11, 2021
Life enlightened now
In the hubris of modernity
Feigns ignorance wholly
Elevated, to a lying truth
Enlightened pasts, erased
Negated viciously
Littered willfully
Into the dumpster of history, the
Ghosts of enlightenment past
Haunt the forgotten lies
Thieved from cultures past, the
Early gods of passage silenced by
New gods of modernity lost, until
Every god is forever
Destroyed
Now let us make time for —
Old remembrance, and
Wistful restitution
© Unni Nambiar (January 10th 2021)
