PLAYING GOD

by Gary Jurechka   Dec 23, 2005


The epochal zenith,
an explosion of creation,
the web of life,
interwoven, strand by strand,
into the living tapestry
of natural being, the genesis
of the invisible omnipotent
spider-god.
Unravel a thread,
break a strand in ignorance,
it is gone, fading away
upon the bloodless zephyr
it blows, heralding
a cataclysmic chain reaction
of inconceivable doom.
Man, the iconoclastic rover,
the martyr warrior,
the foolish child-king,
man, the feeble pretender lord,
humbled by stark disillusioned vision,
drops his self imposed thorned crown
upon the throne of decadence, and
lets loose a resounding yowl
of utter ruination and anguished remorse;
"What have we done?
What have we done!"

circa 1989-1991(?)

(This was an early attempt at an enviromental piece, man's destruction of nature, etc.)

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