The Sky Afire

From the primal infancy of
human life forward we have 
looked to the heavens for 
signals of the meaning of
existence and discovered there
a panoply of supreme beings
viewing humankind as an
experimental game where
emotions of fear or exaltation
could be manipulated toward
wars of random conquest and the
faithful worship of the unknown. 
The timeless presence of gods 
practising their manoeuvres
and machinations for amusement
and mechanical understanding
of cause and effect through
human surrender to the auspices 
of those on high with all the
fiery carnage and destruction
leaving the Earth aheave in
bloody flesh rotting on a
historical battlefield gave
instruction-through-rehearsal
to the gods enabling them to
better perpetrate their own
frenzied demolitions for are we
not made as humans in the
very image of the gods above?
Hence, the sky a battlefield.