Dialogue: Past & Present

We are the kings of the castle: nobody's been here before. If we don't live forever, our legacy will endure.

(But you don't know the secrets the pyramids still keep, So dazzled by yourself, you do not hear us weep.)

People long ago never managed to do as well. Ignorant, uncivilized- what have they to tell?

(But the map of Peiri Reis do you pretend you haven't seen? and the Circles of the Stonehenges- Beyond you have we been!)

They were a lot of Savages. Probably they were like the Native American or abo before the advent of the white.

(Yet knowledge of medicine you ask of those you despise, and why does the earth cry if it is you who are wise?)

Yes, we are well endowed and we know what to do- how to run this planet much better than you.

(Step carefully, unthinking child we have been here before a thousand centuries, but a wink: it is us whom you follow.)