What We Once Were

We were a people once. Our hearts beat as one.

The eye atop our pyramid watched over us with love and protection.

As time passed, we didn't change, but the eye did. Its golden light was no longer soft and warm, it was harsh and searing. Some were burned while others became blind. Not to the world itself, but to the danger of the light.

Only then did we change, became us and them.

They trusted the eye and thought it could do no wrong.

We feared what it would do next and watched what we once were fall apart.