When We Were Once Gods Poem by Micah Krahn

March 2,2014
by Micah Krahn


When We Were Once Gods, they scourged our might with perpetual prayers, ever replenishing our empired heavens with unimaginable amaranthined valor. Intrepidly fortifying our strength and power.


When We Were Once Gods, our beloved exalted us with their blessings, erecting statutes depicting our strapping momentous celestial supremacy.


We were watching when the ashen hailstorm reigned over Pompeii, prevailing fear from raining death. Their screams fell silent as our faithful lay frozen entombed in their inescapable pallid souls.


we lay waste to such atrocities the world had never yet before witnessed. We stood on the precipice of heaven's edge as we watched the Persian armies descend upon the defiant King Leonidas and his loyal three hundred and yet their bravery did not go unnoticed.


We were anchored to the bindings of our immortality when the young Trojan prince danced away the horizon with Helen of Sparta, reciprocating an unforeseen tragedy by burdening his city of Troy to be devoured by devastation under seemingly false and vengeful pretenses.


When We Were Once Gods, we forged the legendary genesis of Perseus, neither fiction nor fable. The all powerful Zeus had never foreseen an offspring so fearlessly gallant yet so humble and selfless that no misdeed goes unheeded.


We were always watching when this Son of God, who was a God himself. Rejected our testaments and prophesies calling them false. Enraged that this mere immortal deity challenged our steadfast, unshattered might. We watched as he undertook the weight of the worldly sin and died upon a cruel, injustice of forsaken friendships and death on a wretched wooden cross.


In our own immortality, our tongues lashed out upon the tyranny of Roman edict, although adoration towards a bloodied empire of true absolutism reigned supreme. We were there when the unconquered and unchallenged Rome fell to ruin.


We were there when the faithful lost their faith, yet again and again. Countless to compare the inevitability of it all. Defiant and rebellious they toiled their spiteful souls in joust towards our heavens to no avail.


When We Were Once Gods, their structures touched the heavens without defiance. When we were once gods... we were once immortal, mighty and unchallenged. Now alas, we were once the Gods of legend and ancient tale.


Forgotten, ruined and lain to waste by the world's oncoming eternal tides of insolence, not yet erased we await a time when the world will discover our worlds again.


The time is sooner than you think.