Bronze Sea Statue Poem by Stan Petrovich

We resided in the Colossus of Rhodes.
Like for an eternity,
Smelling the iron rust;
Worrying on a daily basis
If the apes of the SunGod would come and
Run us through.
We made plans as we made love
In the sweltering
Labyrinth of the gigantic body.

Finally one day the ground shook,
And even Ptolemy could not affect our future:
Those dread men of the sword spied
Our nakedness on the shore,
And although their life would now be brief,
They attacked us with vigor and vengeance,
Because they thought we were the fallen ones,
Which we were.
Slain contemporaries of the wonder of the world,
Who had no words to speak
Of the subject.