Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PYRAMIDS, by LLOYD FRANK MERRELL


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First Line: We build our pyramids of human stone
Last Line: In building christ's own pyramid of sharing?
Subject(s): Pyramids; Religion; Theology


We build our pyramids of human stone,
With tombs of chiseled flesh in tiers outside,
For kings who live long after they have died.
And though the sun floods every mummy bone,
The host of mangled men whose day has flown
Have greater light. Beneath each cruel stride,
The Christ is found among his crucified --
Not Pharaohing summits where we carved his throne.

Fools that we were to build upon the sand
Of ruthless heels that crush a kindred breast.
The sepulchers we towered with Babel daring
Now lean and crash... but who will rise and stand,
Not on, but with mankind, and mutually quest
In building Christ's own pyramid of sharing?





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