2530 B.C.
From above, laborers look like ants swarming a hill.
The scorching sun increases the workload.
Hunched, sweaty backs glisten in the sun.
scrawny muscles struggle to move 2.3 tons.
2.3 million bricks in place, finished.
The Pyramids stand strong.

30 B.C.
Under Caesar’s superior army,
Cleopatra surrenders.
Once envied by civilizations,
Now at the bottom of the hierarchy.
Romans, Greeks, Egyptians.
The Pyramids stand strong.

401A.D.- 1494A.D.
A Christian mob destroys the Temple of Artemis,
The Hanging Gardens, Statue of Zeus,
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus at Rhodes,
and the Lighthouse of Alexandria destroyed by earthquakes.
2016A.D. The Pyramids remain, the first and the last.
The pyramids stand strong.