Exceptional What was once honored is now disenchanted Fallen Angels, part III by estory

Inside these abandoned cities We find the crumbling temples Dedicated to the dead And dismembered heros   Released from the old world To wander in our own In loneliness and despair, Their memories of home.   They are the disinherited, The homeless vagrants Wild as animals, Banshees in the night   Howling down our streets, Trying to find their way back, Recalling the worshipers Kneeling at the broken stoops.   And here the cracked altar And shattered columns Where Apollo once stood In the oracle of Delphi,   There the decapitated statue of Athena Lying across the floor of the Acropolis, The Colussus of Rhodes Scattered in the Aegean   All disenchanted, debunked, Undermined by chicanery And scandal, fraud, A reinterpretation of history.     Author Notes We seem to have many fallen heros across the halls of our history these days. It is a time of iconoclasts, hauling down the reputations of all kinds of figures that we used to look up to. And in the end that speaks to the failings in all men, small and great. Nobody's perfect. Also, changing values in our society as a whole, for better or worse, condemns what was once looked up to and lifts up what was once looked down on. In my view, no matter who are heros are or what our values have become, we are still basically the same. We just honor and condemn different things. estory

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