A BRAVE NEW PROMISED LAND.

So after the Western mind
Had subsided into the pits of history,
It ascended
To Heaven,
Where,
With typical attention to detail,
It proceeded to strip the place of its resources:

Feathers were plucked
With gusto from the wings of angels;
Various ambrosias
Consumed
With greed
And harps were harvested
For their parts and turned into slings and arrows.

After a while a particular faction
Arose whose leader usurped the previous,
Treating Him
Disdainfully
As he left
The place to wander amongst
The remaining clouds that showered the Earth;

And upon one of them He wished
He’d been more honourable to the Eastern fringes
Of the World,
But when
The deities
Of these realms also arrived
They concluded they’d wasted their time in the first place.