Modern Babel

A construction site leads to a meditation on ambition.

The stirred dirt is dotted with machines resembling
abstract sculptures of dinosaurs. The metal skeleton of
an emerging building, a modern Tower of Babel, protrudes
out of the swirled earth and stands out like silhouettes in the sunlight
against the cerulean heavens, humanity’s futile attempt
to grasp immortality through terrestrial achievement, unaware
one day, wiping out their triumph like an eraser rubbing a penciled letter out of existence,
the universe will disintegrate into a collection of scattered atoms.