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Tiamat and the Anthropocene
Gazing at their primordial father
their eyes filled with wonder.
Drawn into his beckoning lights,
they longed to return to the stars, to abandon
the flora, the fauna, the manna, the Mecca.
They saw their origin emerged, thinking it brought them life.
But they were always alive.
Now we are all rolling on a bloody earth, singing about Edens with
eyes cast towards heaven as paradise lies degraded before them.
The violent children destroyed their mother in putrid rapes and gasoline,
strewing her veins across the sky.
They choke on her entrails,
dragging their broken limbs on hollow ground,
across mounds once mountainous now desert,
across a megalopolis coal powered with electric charge,
and dreaming of dark matter.
Marduk, what have you gained? Dividing her into Earth and Sky?
Since when was humanity not charged with her keeping and now her reaping.
All this knowledge laid to waste.
All the stars and chemical equations decoded, all these lofty minds.
They write in volumes to communicate nothing.
And though Babylon lies fallen, her towers once caved are now rebuilt in defiance.
