Unrelenting
For many days it poured unrelenting
Behind thick hoary clouds Apollo hid
Wrothful infuriated Zeus pulled the lid
Rain torrential no longer nourishing
Poseidon gloating; for he ruled the land
Storm swells inundated the fields of grain
And pregnant rivers swamped the flat terrain
Carnage as the trident’s demesne expand!
Lo! Zeus sheathed his thunderbolts finally
Anemoi, all four, blew Nimbus away
Phoebus hurled earthward Helios’ every ray
To rectify the havoc rightfully
Iris appeared in the dew-filled heaven
Her seven colors sight for all to see
Painful contrast to the scattered debris
But the world by the gods now forgiven
The flood waters receded back to sea
Hades reveled at the devastation wrought
Counting the perished that the deluge brought
New dwellers in his realm beneath the lea
Green patches emerged above the waters
Buds and flow’rs appeared in a day or two
As Pan and Daphne danced the pas-de-deux
And all around the wood nymphs and satyrs
Things back to normal as the world restarts
What made Zeus furious quickly forgotten
The world may turn to perdition again
If Ares, Aphrodite fill men’s hearts
But there’s hope that mankind will remember
From the edge of Oceanus, Eos will rise
Welcoming a new dawn prudent and wise
In all hearts peace will be glowing ember
07-13-2021
© Vic Evora
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