Eternity

As deep in mythology as in outer space

The battle twixt Prometheus and Zeus

Continues apace.

One stole the other's fire and now he pays.

Zeus has but one saving grace.

An eagle eats out his liver and Zeus grows another

Right to the ends of his days.

Oh, and that tawdry cosmic affair between 

Venus and Mars

Has turned about face.

What else could you expect but a cosmic farce

That is but a reflection of the comings and goings of the human race.

And as I sit as a sentinel on a rock

As lonely as a nun, or a priest on the run

Or an errant schoolboy in disgrace

I wander and I wonder and my mind runs amok.

And time is on my side, for out here in space,

There is no clock. I am a god called Eternity.