The falling of our civilisation

It took Atlantis years to completely vanish under the waters.
It took Atlantis years to drown and vanish from the map, and for people to stop mentioning it as a tragedy, and start talking about it as a legacy.  
It took Atlantis decades to vanish, and years for the Ottoman’s to fall, years to fall and a lot of dead bodies along the way, and for people to stop talking about them as a legacy and start mentioning the crimes they’ve done.
And it took Ancient Egypt a lot to fall down, leaving a great civilisation behind for people to never stop talking about it.

And it left me wondering, if great things take time to go, how did you let us fall apart so easily?
If we were so great, why didn’t you go to wars to keep me, the way i did you?
You erased me from your heart the way we did to Atlantis, and you left a permanent mark on my heart the way the Nabataeans made a masterpiece out of stones-the only difference is that you left a tragedy behind, the way the Mughals did.

You said you’d always love me the way Nebuchadnezzar loved his wife, and built her the hanging gardens of Babylon, but you’ve always been one of the Magus, and so you’ve set me on fire, and claimed that its love.
And for your lies, i fell and like an idolatry i followed your lead, with no questions and no hesitation.
And like a wool knitter, you knitted your lies perfectly, and like a fool i hanged myself between the knots.
I let my hopes get high, as high as the Eiffel tower, and i fell down hard, so hard that i crashed-And it hurt so much the way it did when Rome fell down.

I was nothing but a hopeless lover, and perhaps a believer who thought you were a Greek god, and so i worshipped you the way they did them, i even wrote about you and for you the way Shakespeare did to his unknown lover.
And i even danced to the rhythm of your love, the way Beethoven felt every note in his play-i danced to the rhythm of a nonexistent love.

If we were so great, why did we fall apart so easily? Why didn’t it leave any legacy behind, why your leaving caused such a mess?
It took Atlantis decades to completely vanish under the waters, and it took you seconds to leave what you once claimed was as great.