Who
built the seven-gated Thebes?
Books merely mention the names of kings.
Did
they carry the boulders?
And
Babylon, destroyed many a times –
Who
rebuilt it every time?
In which houses did the workers in glittering golden Lima lived?
And
the evening,
The
wall of China was completed,
where
did all the masons vanish?
Great
Rome, filled with triumphal arches -
Who
erected those?
Whom
did Caesars conquer?
Were
there only palaces for everyone
In
the glorious Byzantine?
In the magnificent Atlantis
Were they calling their slaves,
the
night the sea swallowed it?
Young
Alexander conquered India.
All
alone?
Caesar
defeated the Gauls.
Was
there not even a cook with him?
Philip
of Spain wept as he watched his fleet sink.
Did no
one else wept for that?
Frederick
II triumphed in the seven years' war
Who
else won, besides him?
Every
page has a victory.
Who
cooked the victory feast?
Every
decade, a Great Man.
Who
paid for his expenses?
So
many stories.
So many questions.- Translated to English by Parvez
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