THE DEATH OF ENKIDU

Of course

it had to be you,

Enkidu;

not the half-god

who would

die, then.

You who

would have

the maggot

fall from

a nostril.

You, the

wild-man

civilized.

You, whose

wife and child

were killed

to accompany you,

because it's terrible

to enter the realm of the dead

alone, to become

a shadow of flesh,

blood and mind.

Of course

it had to be you,

Enkidu,

you and your

wife and son.

Not Gilgamesh,

the half-god,

not then.

29.01.2018