Monday, April 25, 2011

The Fate of Sarpedon


King Priam’s city towers tall

Surrounded by the windy plains

Where mortal men and ageless gods

Wage war as Agamemnon reigns


Man-killing Hector thunders forth

Breaker of horses, Achaean foe

Spurred on by Lord Apollo’s will

And fired by his kingdom’s woe


Much like a lion’s mighty roar

Does Are’s ringing war cry sound

As Danaan wolves and Trojan dogs

Wreak havoc as they hunt and hound


When horses break their chariot reigns

And wounded warriors cry in pain

The blood of beast and man does mix

And mingle in the dusty plain


Amidst the chaos and the din

Of battle born of lustful sin

The lord of thunder pensive sits

In meditation grave and grim


Just like an eagle perched for prey

Surveys the ground below his bower

So deathless Zeus sits and views

The battlefield and topless towers


And in his line of sight there stands

The shepherd of the Lycian sheep

The godlike Sarpedon who sends

To Argive ranks eternal sleep


Infusing strength into his men

The Lycian leader leads them on

Towards Scamander’s hollow ships

Towards a rosy-fingered dawn


The lord of lightning knows the fate

His brave and noble son must meet

He views afar the Myrmidons

Come charging in a frenzied heat


A brazen form with horsehair plume

The mighty son of Kronos sees

Who is this armoured demigod

The brave swift-footed Achilles?


The lord of heaven wrathful grows

Olympus trembles as he quakes

Patroclus clad in gold he sees

Whose hubris paves the path he takes


And yet the fearless Lycian King

Comrade of Glaucus, Sarpedon

Stands like an oak tempestuous bound

Bright shining like the rising sun


The earth stands still as silver bolts

Like tongues of serpents rip the sky

The world will churn and Troy will burn

The blazing sun will set and die


Then ox-eyed Hera wise and bold

Laments and curbs her husband’s pain

The bloody war must run its course

And Sarpedon too must be slain


She knows the spectacle of man

Is one where each does play his part

A poignant tale scripted by Fate

A woven tapestry of art


The tide of time will ebb and flow

Into a calm and placid sea

The swimmer casts a mournful eye

Towards this vast eternity


When Fortune, courtesan of life

Does prance in provocative glee

O, who can bend or try to mend

What harlot graces do decree?


No wounded horseman’s plaintive plea

No god bellowing from the sky

Can win over her wily whims

When Fate ordains that death is nigh


When citadels come crumbling down

And spectres break and arrows rust

Colossal towers crack and char

Civilizations turn to dust


And all bejeweled spoils of war

And all the glory lost and won

Are dog-eared pages fading slow

Into a vast oblivion


The lord of thunder shakes his head

He sees the slayer of his son

He sheds a tear for him so dear

The day is dim, the time has come


Patroclus wields his brazen sword

The furies rage, the sirens sing

As Zeus almighty takes an oath

To clip the boy’s Icarian wings


A thousand carmine raindrops pour

The mighty oak uprooted falls

Surrounded by the dance of death

Prefiguring the flaming walls


The death of dauntless Sarpedon

The lion-hearted Lycian king

Shall bring about the fall of Troy

As Deimos reigns and war cries ring

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