Heroes and Gods

What I am doing 

is making us all 

heroes and gods

like the troubadours and 

song-spinners of old 

I will be singing of you 

long after you are gone 

that the legends of your deeds

may live. 

Each of you 

carries an individual spark

to light the fire of eternity

together our conflagration 

burns through the pages 

of the book of life 

and renders it into ash 

I imagine the phoenix 

of our unity rising again

in the halls of the heavenly hosts

to delight the heart of me

dwelling in the infinite 

hereafter.

Let’s live with such abandon 

that the divine ones are 

amazed at our temerity and 

fear to take us 

let our music swell 

from the table of our communion

that we may cause the 

rabble of nightmares to flee 

before us and the passers by

to gaze on us with longing

their red lips parted

captivated by our words

our laughter 

like an audience bespelled 

to follow our piping.

Illustration by Kate Greenaway for Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"

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