A Babel of words

We are a Babel of words

where once stood a tower of fluency

now lies the remains of Babel

a lost tribe with a fragmented tongue

there was a time we spoke

the same voice

a single extended family

with the same vocabulary

as the creator

A choir building itself up

with a deafening rumble of unison

a body of voices whose swarming

made the Seraphim look down upon the earth

A Babel of words uttering the one desire of all

to build up to the heavens

to reach the ear of God

The sound grew louder with a resounding arrogance

that pricked the ear of Lucifer

and sparked the anger of the almighty

Humanity felt superior to God

building up to the celestial dome

to reach to the highest point

Until the sound was silenced

as the monstrosity came tumbling down

 everything was crumbled into pieces,

nothing remained but dust and rubble.

After the sound of an echoing universal language

first came silence as bodies were muffled and crushed

while others fled like ghosts coated in grit

then came wails of despair, muffled calls for help

that were misunderstood in the confusion of disaster

no one could hear one another

the speech of human kind had become

A Babel of words

Fumbling to rebuild something of the fluency

stumbling over ourselves

with shredded syllables

and fragmented cultures

a lost purity which crumbled with the tower

into undecipherable debris.