A concerned husband strives to please his wife,
in a paradise of color,
inspired by her beauty. 

 
Waterlilies as green as her eyes,
waterfalls as clear as her mind,
and walls as high as her dreams.

She seeks the garden’s heart,
which she locates through adventure,
but discovers it’s her last.

But he realizes,
beautiful things don’t last forever,
and disaster transpires.

Centuries later,
radiance terminates and
Babylon converts to war.

An earthquake
forces them to pass on
paradise falls and war rises.

Her ecstasy
became his nightmare,
a garden forgotten for war.