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Gilgamesh


Must we live like

Gilgamesh

Inbetween gasps of sorrow

Looking tirelessly

For our loves

Lost

 

How many times might we mock openly

The will of gods

Even if they do not

Take us

They take

From us
until we are         nothing

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