Promethean I Am

Promethean I Am

He chose the bones smeared in fat;

No feast for such a mighty God

And in response to such a trick,

He cast them into starving dark.

 

To end such blatant tyranny

I stole the fire of life from Zeus

And sent it down to save on Earth

The race that I foretold in clay.

 

In punishment for such a deed

Zeus lashed me to a solid rock

To suffer much eternal pain;

My liver pecked by eagle’s beak.

 

My Godly organ so consumed

Regenerated and grew by night

Ensuring that each tortured day

Would last until the end of time.

 

And still Zeus not insatiate

Unleashed Pandora on the world

To visit such great plague on men

And to withhold their feeble hope.

 

Too late to save the wretched race,

Heracles killed the feathered fiend

And set my tortured spirit free

To mourne such patient womanry.

 

30^th March 2010

 

Reviews

[Nicky Sarti]

I love this piece too.
Makes me want to learn about Greek mythology and stuff.
I feel that I shall have to take a crash course in all this stuff ~ man I am going to be busy aren't I... Still, what else will I have to do when I can't use my darn hand?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Of course your hand. Yep a fine time to read well. Thanks Nicki!

[Nicky Sarti]

It's been hell without my writing (and pc... and facebook...) but I am back; kinda!

[Junert]

I can't pronouce the title lol. It's nice but I don't know much about poems and can't say much that may help.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

If you like it it saye enough and more!

[Junert]

I love it.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

That makes it all the more sweet.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I am glad you like as your pleasure is mine1

[Yheela]

Classic myth, very smartly written. Me like.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Wow that IS a compliment coming from such a learned woman!

[Yheela]

I think I fake it most of the time, but I do love Greek myth. ^_^

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Hope not!!

[Yheela]

Oh, maybe not fake it ... just not sure about what I say sometimes.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Glad to hear it as I did not belive it-is that poetry!!?

[Yheela]

My poetry I'm sure of, it's the real world that has me wondering, and the classroom - let's not even go there! XD

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Lets!