by Roelien Steenkamp

Created on: April 04, 2010

-The Titanomachy-

It is said, with great thundering threat

That the day shall come, when a manic Man, Earth shall forget

His concrete will fall and his road will crumble

Like a prehistoric creature, his body,

The only Godly feature, will lay humble

In a rock, in the sea or in the tree’s amber

That is when Mother Nature shall endlessly pamper

Her veins of oil and three-eyed fish

Her limbs of bruised, trampled skin and Her follicles of erosion

Her lungs She’ll flush of carcinogenic smoke

The bodies of Her poached children will rise and provoke

Her feet She’ll wash of empty emotion

In Her postponed anger, Man will be killed with Her fatal potion

Man gave Her back as shrivelled, pungent prune

For once where Her rivers ran, now lays his dune

Drained from Her oil, drained from Her crude

Her once rich blood, no longer seen from the moon

A race of monsters with cataclysmic mood

Who hid Her trees with concrete claws

In his bank of blood, an investment of flaws

Unleash Pandora! Leave her, let her fight

To save dear Earth from eternal night

With lightning bolt and thunder strike

With waves of salt, it serves Man right

For he made ice crack, and he made forests burn

For he blew his chemical poison in all his might

Yet in vicious volcanic tube lay Her turn

Her bitter-sweet catastrophe, a revolting sight

With Her heaven empty, Her hell full

She allowed Man to stay against Her will

To drink Her thirsty flesh, eat Her sacred cells

But now, a war She must fulfil

She’ll bandage Her wounds and close Her wells

Unleash Pandora! Leave her, let her fight

To save dear Earth from eternal night

Give Earth a kiss, as you’d give you mother

For She scorns you and your guilty brother

But do not lie in waste, those that tried

She’ll remember you, in you She’ll confide

And perhaps spare your life, if yours is not one of selfish pride

With man a Titan, and Earth a god

The clash inevitable, the war almighty

An age-old battle, a Titanomachy.

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