Vacant places still.
https://www.wattpad.com/1407072545-athena-and-the-fight-to-bring-the-parthenon
Please follow the link to the latest free verse poem on the Subject of the Return of the Parthenon Marbles
My husband stands viewing the Parthenon
We the viewer can’t see what he gazes at, but
The look on his profile tells me a story
For I know in his heart he has found his place.
I have never stood were he stands
But it doesn’t matter as I go in my spirit
Everyday , the return to that rock
I go with him and stand there viewing his place .
I fight to bring the fragments of the Parthenon.
Those ancient sculptures of marble that once,
Belonged to that building and still do though,
They have been held by the British Museum.
For two hundred years the Greeks have asked,
Have pleaded,have begged , have built a museum,
To accept them back with the help of UNESCO.
Voices world wide join in the plead to the British Governments,
Over the centuries, they have backed their return to the Acropolis,
To Athens,to their place,of their making, their rightful home.
But… Still… Still they decorate the halls of the British Museum.
Still the British power holds them tight stating that they belong to them.
How can such a thing be real, surely, if the British People , the majority
Wish for the Classical Greek Sculptures to be returned to Greece, Hellas;
Their government would like to please the majority surely ?
But no, they hang on, against this voice and those of the world,
That still ask for the moral, and the right thing by all, they asked for return.
The British Powers hold to their so called right that they can keep stolen
Artifacts , yes they were taken by Lord Elgin , cut from the Parthenon
Shipped to his homeland , England then sold to his government
to pay his taxes, priceless artifacts sold for a minimal 35,000 British Pounds
The disgrace , the manipulation and fraud of documents to cover the fact
that these ancient pieces of the Parthenon were stolen… not taken lawfully
Was accepted by the British government of the day…
yes they have proof, but those documents were illegal , but still it was done.
Yes, in 1816 this is the British Government of that day accepting stolen artifacts
To pay the taxes of a thief, and the “Curse of Minerva” by Lord Byron
Sealed Lord Elgin’s Fate. And gave birth to international condemnation
And the term Elginism was penned to give birth to naming and shaming
Those that deal with Artifacts of a stolen nature and get away with it..
But this is all lost history, really doesn’t mean a thing, now two hundred years
Those priceless Fragments of the Parthenon belong back to the only place on Earth
that they truly belong is in Athens Greece, Hellas , for they are Greece.
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