Title: Volubilis
Form: poem
Language: en
Canonical URL: https://pembaumoja.com/en/poems/volubilis

Volubilis
Who hears your song now?
Is it lost in the distant valley?
Just another crumbled city—
fallen columns
walls of eroded stone?
Who hears the songs now
of the love
which once made your
pathways molten with life?
Are they lost forever without record?
What makes the flowers upon which we walk
so intense with color?
Are they planted
upon the ashes
of your many buried souls?
The way they contort
among the weeds,
it is as though they yearn
to reveal some untold tale.
Perhaps of a great Roman city long past.
