There was a power grab on a planet swirling through space
Long ago.
Chiefs, generals, engineers, and masons
Deluded
Thought
If only
If only we could add enough of
What has been made
Piece by piece
and build upon it
What has been made
With our ingenuity
and effort
We can reach
and be
The creator.
We can take over.
All we need is the will and
The energy and
The creativity and
The commitment
To rise higher than
The Originator
and we can be Original.
And they unified around that
Big Idea
and ended up
In utter confusion.
In spite of all their unity
and Progress ...
They forgot a few key
Home Truths or
Cradles of Civilization.
Either way ....
" Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11:1-9 ESV)
