Man standing among the ruins... "Gott giebt uns die Nusse, aber er bricht sie nicht auf." --Goethe

A man among the ruins, 

he gazes out and towards the sea,

the very shore Hannibal saw when he

commenced a war—the beginning 

of fame, glory and his own, inevitable demise...

VH Lyr

“Portrait of a Man,” acrylic on canvas by EMH