Then the Gods Laughed

Then the gods Laughed 

I took a tour around and inside,

a museum and saw memorabilia of times past;

Displayed in many forms and shelved,

But under a common name identified;

Underneath them all written, I read:

 “gods of past civilizations.”

  After visiting a myriad of such labeled beings, I asked:

 “Where are the spots prepared?

  for the gods of today to be shelved?”

  Only then I heard loud laughter explode,

  And turned to see it coming from each godhead:

  Baal, Zeus, Horus, mythra and their entire league,

  All labeled “past gods” saying in a rhythmic chorus:

  “Same is today as with us it had been,

   No soul in our times thought we could wear out and pass,

   With the millennia and minds that fashioned us.”

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  (PTS, 2009)