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No Longer Waiting (After C.P. Cavafy)
by p.a. morbid

The Barbarians have 
breached the walls of the Citadel
and are running amok,
destroying the sacred texts 
of our ancestors.

Where are the Prefects? 
Where are those with the power
to call allies to our side
and stop these Philistines 
from wrecking the temples?

This time the Barbarians 
had no need to scale the walls,
nor rain war upon our battlements, 
because the Leaders and the Prefects 
opened the gates for them.

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