What’s Ancient Can Fill a Few Paragraphs

What's ancient can fill a few paragraphs
Of generations.
One hundred lifetimes
Spans the whole of human history.
The ancient hymns I love
Were once youthful
And it was not that long ago.

The entirety of human history
Fills A paragraph in Luke.
It was only for five generations
That the common man could hear music.
How illusion makes things seem so royal
And it makes things seem ancient.
That ancientness makes them seem more important.

To an eighteen year old man
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Is far away.
About as far away as Vietnam 
Was to me.

And certainly they can't know
The salubrious nature
Which was our freedom.
No... because ten years
After communism fell
The towers fell.
And that same eighteen year old
Will never remember that,
Either.