Oh Pompeii !
How could you sleep
With Vesuvius there so near you?
Could you not feel
The burning heat
Melting the earth below?
Could you not sense the tremors
That were waiting to release
The catastrophic ecstasy
Of glowing molten flow?
Were you weary with life’s business?
Did the daylight hours tire you?
Quick destruction caught you sleeping
So that we will never know.
-jenn long
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