Myth

surpassing all lords by two thirds
w/ rights at the door
the one who would see the world before the flood
built Uruk from the ground up
and beyond the walls wilderness
and beyond the wilds of man
none were safe
but safer still than ruled
iron handed down
pelt and blow
larynx bruised and still
voiced out to an empty sky and ears
until the answer came
in equal measure and might
another man or beast to the eyes
with the strength of twelve or more
running naked
and wild to the core
until a trapper’s son
doing what a trapper does
shows him shamhat
who takes out the wild
and brings the city in
and inside the walls
his match and mate
lay not once but twice
dreaming first of a meteorite
and then a second time around
a hatchet or axe
both of which he would embrace as his wife
where as in both flights of fantasy (fancy)
the maternal voice egged him on to completion
and when eyes were wide
her council sought to explain
“a sign” she says
A companion and friend
A wild man tamed
To tame and teach in turn