Of Mice & Men; God & Mortal Poem by Derek Fitzpatrick

Tribal Phoenix's
Shake their spears,
Empowering weaknesses
Shunning hate & fear
Apollo is asleep.
Dance unto thy night
Illuminated, freedom
Beneath Luna's
Evanescent light..
Tongues tied to arrows,
In mid-flight,
Immaculate drunkenness
God's in mortal hide
Playing in the pyramids
Where the Pharaoh died.

Philosophers buried
Heads in the sand.
Drink from thine hand,
Gazing potions.
Over-potent.

Drift off..
I spoke to the ocean
She apologized too often.
Poseidon euphoria,
Below the sea bottoms
We make love in coffins,
Is this something we've found,
Or another key forgotten.

Dancing..
In Hades' Garden Graveyard
Where the Outcasts
Are planted,
& harvested for Chaos

Children are chanting..
'What would the world be,
Without us? '

Demolition God's,
Assemble by the fire
Made of wood,
Rebels & fighters.
Burning Athena & Ares,
While immortals expire
Others celebrate & conspire.

Apollo has awoken, shaken..
Spewing daylight unto mortals,
Feathered & naked,
They tell no Tales,
Make no fable.
So sacred, free & able,
Catastrophic, alive..fatal.
Chaos streams,
Through their dreams,
Acted upon, without means
No beginning nor end
So free to die,
Too proud to live.
Conscience's seize,
What hearts can't give
Divine, defiled
Entwined in exile
Vague, vicious
Happy & homicidal.
Lustfully living
The end, is beginning.

Fire rains upward...
Into the sunset,
Apollo creeps in shadows,
Underneath Luna's lovenet.

He comes to Zeus, with naked truths.
'These mortals..
They're our own self destructive
Masterpieces..
What shall we do? '

Thunder struck mankind
& created fire..
'No treaty! Nor truce! '
Shouts Zeus.

Let them be,
They are free,
Uncaged, rattled..
By Destiny
Let them question me,
For a wise man,
Tells no tales,
Build your pyramids,
Empires & temples,
Stand by & wait,
For them to crumble.
Lost in your trials & trails,
Let them be..
Let them fall,
& get back on their feet
Let them wait, for their dismissal bell,
One day..
They just may,
Realize,
Through 3 eyes
They, are the downfall..
..of themselves.