Sunday, July 10, 2022

God of War

 Photo of volcanic ash taken in Hawaii on April 8, 2008.

He rampaged bloodily through the
pantheon of Roman antiquity,
Mars bellicose and triumphant,
leading the ever 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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