One Civilization Poem by James McLain

Thousands of years older than the Sumerian civilization.
Though the cultural background of these people now gone,
whom lived on the land here no more.
I was even then alive once whom now you do not know except I.
Lost it is not this city by the bay it lies nearer to the shore,
but not to near.
Ninty five hundred years old now it was unlike I the youngest.
Newer than Egypt, older than oldest of all Chinese cities.
Developmently unaware of the rest of the world untill again I.
Civilizations on this planet,
that did fundamentally affect the overall picture of my race.