the theban

[constantine]

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

[saw]

as I mentioned on another site, I really love this one on many levels..

[constantine]

thanks steve. that site wouldn't be poetry in baltimore would it?

[stilltrucking]

I love it when you get down to your roots.
I think it is an authentic
trope for you.

[constantine]

i feel comfortable within the greek cultural idiom. the ancient themes are forever relevant.