JayBird Dreaming

“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

i. zeus had the skies, he stormed, but his own acid tears burned him;

ii. poseidon ruled the seas, but he choked on his own turf;

iii. hades held the underground riches, but he was robbed, too quickly, too furiously;

iv. hera watched her kind fight, but they were beaten and bruised;

v. demeter sowed her crops, but her land died under her pupils’ harvest;

vi. hestia held the families, but they broke down one by one to drunken violence and narrow-minded views;

vii. athena blessed the creators, but the world moved on too fast and the blessed thought less and less;

viii. ares rallied the troops, but they mutinied and fell upon one another;

ix. aphrodite bestowed beauty, but she lost hold of the innermost kind;

x. hephaestus slaved away, but his quota was never met and the demands only soared;

xi. artemis held her ground, but her followers broke their vows and threw aside their chastity;

xii. apollo sang and healed, but his songs lost their touch and the diseases flew beyond his skill;

xiii. hermes sped on his winged sandals, but he was too slow to keep up with the world;