Wednesday, December 26, 2012



 
Mars, by Diego Velazquez
Mars, by Diego Velazquez

God of War

He rampaged bloodily through the
pantheon of Roman antiquity,
Mars bellicose and triumphant,
leading the never irenic battalions of
Rome's fearsome military might,
their phalanxes, their helmeted,
breast-plated, shielded centurions
and their raging chariots and swords
to lay waste to all those nations
defiant unto death against the might
of Rome. How could they possibly
know of a distant planet that 
served the Universe by experiment
through incomprehensible orders
of magnitude far surpassing in time
the era of our own ancient mould -
Mars unleashed a nuclear storm 
of absolute annihilation, destroying
all life in its dread demonstration
of the very nature of intelligence
coursing through an advanced
civilization ...  An eternal memory?

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