Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Through this time so sorrowfully past
We dropped countless explosions, flesh-blossomed,
So clever pushing the brainly-designed pods
And now comes far more tomorrowed smart bombs.

Oh, this endless scientific avarice,
To discover again our ghoulish genius,
We who launched a million ships
Since golden Ilium burned with Greek fire
Through the time so sorrowfully past
And dropped countless explosions, flesh-blossomed
Lightning the sky like Zeus in a righteous rage.

Shrewd cunning slithers through our high-tech success,
Swallowed  until our gorged stomachs implode
Through the time so sorrowfully past
Like the golden apple thrown to the Three
And dropped countless explosions, flesh-blossomed,
Slashing the moral sky like Gorgoned hubris,

Leaving  Sophia cut up like the Levite's concubine
Through the time so sorrowfully past
In this vast historical ever forgeting,
Thundering the sky like fallen messengers
Where we squander mind blossoms in this
Moral smart-aleck Hell of tomorrow.

Bio: Daniel Wilcox casts his lines out in Wild Violet, Moria, Centrifugal Eye, Clockwise Cat, etc. "The Faces of Rock," based on his time in the Middle East, first appeared in The Danforth Review. Dark Energy, a book of his poetry, was published by Diminuendo Press. Daniel lives with Psalms, Yawps and Howls, and his wife on the coast of California.