And The Ocean Was Our Sky - A Pastiche
to think he made himself
without the help
of an Olympian God
who molded men from clay.
nor did he rise
from bone and ash
or the fires of Hell.
he did not come
from the sea
with a pod of vengeful whales
for an army.
he was not born
holding a silver spoon
or wielding a golden sword.
he grew simply
in the arms of his mother
and in the hands of his father.
in the rays of the setting sun
that stained the color of his eyes
and dappled his cheeks
with adoring kisses.
he was raised in the fields and the forests
marveling the world
and its creatures.
and he made himself into the man he wanted to be.
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