5 June 2011

ILIKIMU WRITES




Shahar! Athtart! Anat! Ashima!
Qadeshtu of the Sacred Rite!
Kothar and Khasis! Melqart and Fishy Dagon!
Smith Baal of the Thunderbolt!
And Shapash who rides above them all!

I see your faces graven on the stones and know
You were mighty ones here in your time
Gods over all that you surveyed
You made your worshippers so wealthy
And brought down doom on any who disobeyed

Now your temples all are crumbled
Back to the dust from which they came
Or buried beneath the names of other gods
When even your cities and your peoples
Become but names on tired tongues

What becomes of gods like you
When none can even say their names?
Do gods go into heaven or vanish in the air?
What matters then a mortal’s life
When even gods are soon forgotten?

1 comments:

janinsanfran said...

We can only wonder ... and wonder. Be well.

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