Pyramids

The pyramids did not like being built.

I used to go up there in the cool night, they'd tell me of the days when they sat as mountains, when they commanded rivers and watched the world.

I tried to tell them that they were now part of history. That in millennia people would look at them as the symbols of an empire.

'Pssht, that's all human nonsense.' They'd say, and somehow I understood.

 They were no more the symbols of conquest, of human victory and achievement than lost souls looking for their home.

And that is why they are fading, falling apart. Because they never wanted to be part of mans world, never wanted anything more than to sit in the cool of their mountain, glorying in the days when they ruled the world.