the theban
Posted: April 2nd, 2009, 11:05 pm
deny the gods
but not their attributes
for these are eternal
and can reach across the millennium
with an impact, so profoundly ironic,
as to reveal not only a divine presence
but our own flickering mortality
like death, you can't avoid them
though you run desperately
for a thousand years,
just as the theban
who chases his fate,
as others offer tribute
to the scylla and charybdis
of hand to mouth -
no more, no less will do
and the horror of his innocence
exposed the gods themselves,
perpetrators of what no man deserves,
but inherits still - the bounty
buried precisely at the spot
where character surely will propel him -
the ambush, patiently waiting
at the crossroads of the damned
but not their attributes
for these are eternal
and can reach across the millennium
with an impact, so profoundly ironic,
as to reveal not only a divine presence
but our own flickering mortality
like death, you can't avoid them
though you run desperately
for a thousand years,
just as the theban
who chases his fate,
as others offer tribute
to the scylla and charybdis
of hand to mouth -
no more, no less will do
and the horror of his innocence
exposed the gods themselves,
perpetrators of what no man deserves,
but inherits still - the bounty
buried precisely at the spot
where character surely will propel him -
the ambush, patiently waiting
at the crossroads of the damned