Some Myths are Far More Real
“Orpheus is a hero, not a god, and a hero more valuable than
most gods, just as Prometheus was.”
~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 21
The gods are less than Orpheus of Thrace.
Gods loomed up large but they were never real.
Majestic for a while, they left no trace,
No godly trace, once Christ’s and Allah’s peal
Rang out. And what was left? Some poems, plays
And myths, poetic in their power these tales
But only words. The new Gods live in blaze
Of certainty and they are males,
Males only, not confused with female stuff.
They crushed the competition on the shores
Of Middle Sea. The new gods brightly snuff
Out lightning bolts, making goddesses whores.
..Yet Orpheus’s shattering still lives
….Across the world. Orpheus still gives.