Atheism
“The lyric had functions in religious and other terms.”
~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 10
So what has changed? Nothing really, except
We now make lust itself a god, divine
Without the need of Venus. We have swept
The gods away, those ones of love and wine,
Of wisdom, and of poetry. Today
We make romantic love our holy god,
Not needing Dionysus or the sway
Athena held in upright minds. How odd
That now we worship upright male desire
All swollen, full of blood and veins, and do
Not ask divinity to drive it. Fire
In thighs accomplishes the godless coup.
..No incense, chanting, or belief is now
….Required. The sex itself replaces any vow.