With The Tide

So Cronus took his sickle

and marred the Earth

and was forever branded Titan

for it

but amongst cornflowers grew

thistle

and the harvest did not fail that year

or the one after.

And Zeus reached out and tore

thunder from the sky, but

it did not burn his palms

and he

soiled his fathers face

and shattered the marble

statues, yet

forming again from the ashes and dirt-

brittle and fair.

Thus Man took the temples and the cities

and tore them down, and from the

rubble, they pried

with bleeding hands

Glass and Metal

and built their own fortresses

and shaped the winds and storms that would

havoc their bodies-

stronger with the tide.